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A morphism image need not be closed

Statement refuted

False claim: every regular morphism of classical varieties has closed image.

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]

A subset S of a classical variety X is locally closed if S=UZ for some open UX and closed ZX. A subset is constructible if it is a finite union of locally closed subsets. The empty union is allowed, so is constructible. 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. (Locally closed and constructible subsets).

[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

Take projection p:H=V(xy1)A1 onto x. Its equations have a solution precisely when x0: the solution is y=x1. Thus p(H)=D(x), a constructible open subset.

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2.1

The set D(x) is proper since it omits zero, and is dense: any one-variable polynomial vanishing at all its infinitely many points is the zero polynomial. Therefore its image is not closed, refuting the claim.

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