Algebraic Varieties Are Homeomorphic to Varieties Defined over Number Fields

Adam Parusinski (Nice)

Abstract

We show that every affine or projective algebraic variety defined over R or C is homeomorphic to a variety defined over the field of algebraic numbers. We construct such homeomorphism by choosing a small deformation of the coefficients of the original equations. This method is based on the properties of Zariski equisingular families of varieties. (Based on a joint paper with Guillaume Rond.) A similar local result for analytic function germs was obtained by Guillaume Rond.