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In §8 our discussion of normality has been largely a matter of carrying over into geometry the algebraic ideas and algebraic constructions involving integral closure. However, normality turns out to have a hidden geometric content as well, which is not so easy to discover. This involves the concept of the “branches” of a variety at a point.
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Mumford, D. (1988). Zariski’s Main Theorem. In: The Red Book of Varieties and Schemes. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1358. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-21581-4_27
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