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Finite fibres and an open immersion do not make a map finite
Statement refuted
False claim: a quasi-finite morphism of classical varieties that is an open immersion is finite.
Facts & Assumptions
Assume the Axiom of Choice.
Given: AC, an algebraically closed field , the affine line with coordinate ring , the principal open , and the inclusion .
with its regular functions is an affine variety with coordinate ring , realized as the closed graph , and is the restriction of the projection, with pullback the inclusion (Every nonempty principal open is a classical affine variety, Affine morphisms are contravariantly equivalent to coordinate-ring homomorphisms).
A morphism of classical varieties is quasi-finite when every closed-point fibre is a finite set; empty fibres are allowed (Quasi-finite classical morphisms).
A finite morphism of classical varieties is closed: the image of every closed subset is closed (Finite morphisms are closed with finite fibres).
The closed subsets of the affine line are the finite subsets and the whole line (On the affine line, the classical Zariski topology is cofinite); since is algebraically closed, hence infinite, the set is infinite and therefore not closed in . Its closure is all of .
AC is inherited through the classical localization, normalization, or finite-morphism suppliers cited above (The Axiom of Choice).
Counterexample
The map is an open immersion and is quasi-finite: it is the inclusion of the principal open [F1], and its fibres are singletons over the points of and empty over , so every closed-point fibre is finite [F2].
The map is not finite. If it were finite, then by [F3] its image would be closed in ; but its image is , which by [F4] is infinite and hence not closed. Equivalently, the coordinate-ring inclusion would make a finite -module, which it is not: a finite generating set of Laurent polynomials has a bounded negative exponent, and no finite -span contains all powers .
The inclusion is therefore an open immersion with finite fibres that is not finite, refuting the claim; the missing hypothesis is properness (equivalently, closedness of the map), which is exactly what [F3] supplies for finite morphisms and what fails for this open immersion.
Depends on
- The Axiom of Choice
- Finite morphisms of classical varieties
- Finite morphisms are closed with finite fibres
- Quasi-finite classical morphisms
- Every nonempty principal open is a classical affine variety
- Affine morphisms are contravariantly equivalent to coordinate-ring homomorphisms
- On the affine line, the classical Zariski topology is cofinite
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