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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 , 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.
A subset of a classical variety is locally closed if for some open and closed . 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 , 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).
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
Take projection onto . Its equations have a solution precisely when : the solution is . Thus , a constructible open subset.
The set 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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Sources
- Milne Example 7.2 (standard reference, not scraped)