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Dimension zero for the empty set loses the empty-fibre distinction

Statement refuted

Incompatibility to refute: adopt dim=0 while retaining the assertion dimT0 if and only if T. The convention dim= makes that assertion, and the empty maximum, literal; no uniqueness among all possible dimension conventions is claimed.

Work over a fixed algebraically closed field k, 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.

[F1]

For a Noetherian topological space T, define dimT as the supremum of the lengths s of strict chains Z0Zs of nonempty irreducible closed subsets of T. Thus a one-member chain has length zero. Set dim=, and allow dimT=+. The supremum of an empty family of dimensions is . (Chain dimension and the empty-space convention).

[F2]

For a morphism f:XY of classical varieties and a closed point yY, let Xy=f1(y) have its reduced closed-subvariety structure. Its dimension is the chain dimension, with dimXy= if the fibre is empty. On affine charts VY containing y and Uf1(V), writing A=k[V] and B=k[U], the fibre chart has coordinate ring B/myB. Here general morphisms have the locally ringed-space meaning; the earlier affine morphism definition applies to the restrictions UV. Work over a fixed algebraically closed field k, 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

1.1

The fibre at zero of V(xy1)A1, (x,y)x, is empty since 0y=1 has no solution. Giving it dimension zero makes dimT0 true while T is false. Thus the two proposed rules are incompatible.

F2
2.1

With the chain convention, the empty space has no chain and dimension . If a Noetherian space T is nonempty, choose a point; its closure is a nonempty irreducible closed subset and provides a length-zero chain, so dimT0. Conversely dimT0 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.

F1step 1.1

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