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We construct a class of projective rational varieties X of any dimension m ≥ 1, which are smooth except at a point O, with the projective space ℙ m as normalization, having smooth branches, and reduced projectivized tangent cone in O. The Hilbert function of X is considered and is explicitly computed when the point O is seminormal. Indeed, we study seminormality, obtaining necessary and sufficient conditions for O to be seminormal and show that in such case the tangent cone is reduced and seminormal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As an outgrowth of the study of algebraic geometry over groups, discriminating groups were introduced. Many important universal type groups such as Higman's universal group and Thompson's group F were shown to be discriminating. Squarelike groups were then introduced to better capture axiomatic properties of discrimination. In the present article squarelike groups are reinterpreted in terms of discrimination of quasi varieties, and the relationship with an older version of discrimination, termed varietal discrimination here, is studied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]