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Dimension zero for the empty set loses the empty-fibre distinction
Statement refuted
Incompatibility to refute: adopt while retaining the assertion if and only if . The convention makes that assertion, and the empty maximum, literal; no uniqueness among all possible dimension conventions is claimed.
Work over a fixed algebraically closed field , with the Axiom of Choice. Classical varieties are separated and admit finite affine covers; they may be reducible or empty unless irreducibility is specified. Irreducible means nonempty. All fibres and points below are classical closed-point fibres and points.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The objects and hypotheses in the statement refuted, for the explicit witness below.
For a Noetherian topological space , define as the supremum of the lengths of strict chains of nonempty irreducible closed subsets of . Thus a one-member chain has length zero. Set , and allow . The supremum of an empty family of dimensions is . (Chain dimension and the empty-space convention).
For a morphism of classical varieties and a closed point , let have its reduced closed-subvariety structure. Its dimension is the chain dimension, with if the fibre is empty. On affine charts containing and , writing and , the fibre chart has coordinate ring . Here general morphisms have the locally ringed-space meaning; the earlier affine morphism definition applies to the restrictions . Work over a fixed algebraically closed field , with the Axiom of Choice. Classical varieties are separated and admit finite affine covers; they may be reducible or empty unless irreducibility is specified. Irreducible means nonempty. All fibres and points below are classical closed-point fibres and points. (Reduced closed-point fibres and their dimension).
Counterexample
The fibre at zero of , , is empty since has no solution. Giving it dimension zero makes true while is false. Thus the two proposed rules are incompatible.
With the chain convention, the empty space has no chain and dimension . If a Noetherian space is nonempty, choose a point; its closure is a nonempty irreducible closed subset and provides a length-zero chain, so . Conversely excludes the empty space. Defining the supremum and maximum over the empty family as also makes the finite-closed-union formula consistent for an empty cover.
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Sources
- Milne Definition 2.48, p.54, chain dimension background; empty-convention compatibility checked here (standard reference, not scraped)