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normalCone -- the normal cone of a subscheme

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Description

The normal cone of an ideal I⊂R is the ring R/I ⊕I/I2 ⊕..., also called the associated graded ring of R with respect to I. If S is the Rees algebra of I, then this ring is isomorphic to S/IS, which is how it is computed here.

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