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Can it happen that an affine open subset of an affine variety is not the complement of a hypersurface? I think this must be able to happen because if not, I imagine I would have encountered a proposition to that effect in one of the books I am studying. However, I so far don't have an example: in all the toy examples I am thinking of, the minute I construct an open subset so that its complement isn't a hypersurface, it also stops being affine.

By the way, I am interested in this question due to a homework assignment (hence the homework tag) but the question itself is not the one I was assigned. I am not including the assigned question out of fear somebody might answer it or inadvertently give me a bigger hint than I want.

Thanks in advance.

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    @Rankeya - thanks.2012-11-13

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