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A nonclosed open immersion is not proper

Statement refuted

Every open immersion of schemes is proper. This fails already for the principal open D(t) of the affine line over any field k: the open immersion j:D(t)→Ak1 has image D(t), which is not closed in Ak1, so j is not universally closed and hence not proper.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: A field k, the polynomial ring R=k[t], the affine line X=Spec⁡R=Ak1 over Spec⁡k, the principal open D(t)={p∈X:t∉p} with its open subscheme structure, and the inclusion j:D(t)→X.

[F1]

The relative affine space Ak1 is Spec⁡k[t] over Spec⁡k, and the points of Spec⁡A are the prime ideals of A. (Schemes and morphisms over a base, The underlying space of an affine spectrum)

[F2]

For f∈A the principal open D(f)={p∈Spec⁡A:f∉p} is the complement of V((f)), and the vanishing sets V(I) are the closed subsets of the Zariski topology on Spec⁡A. (Principal distinguished subsets of the prime spectrum, The vanishing sets define the Zariski topology on the prime spectrum)

[F3]

For T⊆A the vanishing set is V(T)={p:T⊆p}, and V((0))=Spec⁡A; in particular (0)∈V(g) exactly when g=0. (The prime spectrum and vanishing sets, Vanishing-set identities)

[F4]

The principal ideal (a) is the smallest ideal containing a, so a∈(a). (The ideal generated by a subset and principal ideals)

[F6]

Evaluation at 0 is the unital ring homomorphism ev⁡:k[t]→k with t↦0 furnished by the universal property of the polynomial ring; it sends f to its constant coefficient f(0). (Universal property of R[x]: a coefficient homomorphism and the image of x determine a unique ring homomorphism, The polynomial ring over a commutative ring as finitely supported coefficient sequences with convolution)

[F7]

The inclusion of an open subscheme is an open immersion, so it identifies its source isomorphically with that open subscheme. (Open immersions of schemes)

[F8]

A morphism is proper exactly when it is separated, of finite type and universally closed; it is universally closed when every base-changed projection along a morphism to its target is a closed map; and a proper morphism is a closed map whose image is closed. (Proper morphisms, Universally closed morphisms, Proper morphisms are closed)

[F9]

Fibre products of S-schemes satisfy the projection-compatible isomorphism X×SS≅X≅S×SX. (Symmetry, associativity and units)

Counterexample

1.1F1F2F5F6algebra

The ring R=k[t] is an integral domain by [F5], so (0) is a prime ideal and is a point of X=Spec⁡R=Ak1. The indeterminate satisfies t≠0 in k[t], so t∉(0) and therefore (0)∈D(t).

1.2F1F2F4F6algebra

The principal ideal (t) equals {f∈k[t]:f(0)=0}. For f=tg one has f(0)=0⋅g(0)=0, so (t) is contained in that set and in particular t∈(t) by [F4]; conversely, if f(0)=0 then the constant coefficient of f vanishes, so writing f as its finite coefficient sum gives f=t⋅(∑i≥1aiti−1)∈(t). Hence (t) is a prime ideal: it is proper because 1∉(t), as ev⁡(1)=1≠0; and if fg∈(t) then f(0)g(0)=ev⁡(f)ev⁡(g)=ev⁡(fg)=0, so f(0)=0 or g(0)=0 because k is an integral domain, and then f∈(t) or g∈(t). Thus (t) is a point of X and t∈(t), so (t)∉D(t).

2.1F2F7step 1.1step 1.2

The set D(t)=X∖V((t)) is open in X by [F2], and the inclusion j:D(t)→X of this open subscheme is an open immersion by [F7] whose image is exactly the subset D(t)⊆X. By steps 1.1 and 1.2 that image contains (0) and omits (t), so it is a nonempty proper subset of X.

3.1F2F3F5step 1.1step 2.1

The image D(t) is not closed in X. If it were closed, then, the closed subsets of X being the vanishing sets [F2], there would be an ideal I⊆k[t] with D(t)=V(I); by [F5] the ideal is principal, I=(g), so D(t)=V(g). Since (0)∈D(t) we get g∈(0) by [F3], that is g=0, and then D(t)=V((0))=X by [F3], contradicting the properness of the image recorded in step 2.1.

4.1step 2.1step 3.1

It follows that j is not a closed map of topological spaces: the whole source D(t) is a closed subset of the source, and its image under j is D(t), which is not closed in X by step 3.1.

5.1F8F9step 4.1

Suppose j were universally closed. Taking the identity morphism X→X as test morphism, the definition [F8] would make the base-changed projection D(t)×XX→X a closed map. By [F9] the scheme D(t)×XX is projection-compatibly isomorphic to D(t), and under this isomorphism the projection corresponds to j, so j would be a closed map, contradicting step 4.1. Therefore j is not universally closed.

6.1F5F6F8step 1.2step 3.1step 5.1∎

Since properness requires universal closedness by [F8], the open immersion j is not proper; directly, if j were proper then [F8] would make its image closed, contradicting step 3.1. So the claim that every open immersion is proper is refuted. The argument applies to every field, including finite fields and fields of characteristic two, since the two points (0) and (t) of X exist for every field; both are exhibited explicitly and no choice principle is used, the only inputs being the definitional closedness description of the Zariski topology, the principal-ideal property of k[t], and the elementary computation (t)={f:f(0)=0} of step 1.2.

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