A notion of seminormalization for real algebraic varieties

Abstract

The seminormalization of an algebraic variety $X$ is the biggest variety linked to $X$ by a finite, birational and bijective morphism. In this paper we introduce a variant of the seminormalization, suited for real algebraic varieties, called the R-seminormalization. This object have a universal property of the same kind of the one of the seminormalization but related to the real closed points of the variety. In a previous paper, the author studied the seminormalization of complex algebraic varieties using rational functions that extend continuously to the closed points for the Euclidean topology. We adapt here some of those results to the R-seminormalization and we provide several examples. We also show that the R-seminormalization modifies the singularities of a real variety by normalizing the purely complex points and seminormalizing the real ones.