In mathematics, a rational variety is an algebraic variety, over a given field K, which is birationally equivalent to a projective space of some dimension over K. This means that its function field is isomorphic to
the field of all rational functions for some set of indeterminates, where d is the dimension of the variety.
Let V be an affine algebraic variety of dimension d defined by a prime ideal I=⟨f1, ..., fk⟩ in . If V is rational, then there are n+1 polynomials g0, ..., gn in such that In order words, we have a rational parameterization of the variety.