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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 of the affine line over any field : the open immersion has image , which is not closed in , so is not universally closed and hence not proper.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A field , the polynomial ring , the affine line over , the principal open with its open subscheme structure, and the inclusion .
The relative affine space is over , and the points of are the prime ideals of . (Schemes and morphisms over a base, The underlying space of an affine spectrum)
For the principal open is the complement of , and the vanishing sets are the closed subsets of the Zariski topology on . (Principal distinguished subsets of the prime spectrum, The vanishing sets define the Zariski topology on the prime spectrum)
For the vanishing set is , and ; in particular exactly when . (The prime spectrum and vanishing sets, Vanishing-set identities)
The principal ideal is the smallest ideal containing , so . (The ideal generated by a subset and principal ideals)
For every field the ring is an integral domain, so is a prime ideal, and every ideal of is generated by one element. (Every field is a commutative ring with ; it is an integral domain, and it is a commutative division ring, A polynomial ring over an integral domain is an integral domain, Prime ideals and maximal ideals in a commutative ring, For every field , is a principal ideal domain)
Evaluation at is the unital ring homomorphism with furnished by the universal property of the polynomial ring; it sends to its constant coefficient . (Universal property of : a coefficient homomorphism and the image of determine a unique ring homomorphism, The polynomial ring over a commutative ring as finitely supported coefficient sequences with convolution)
The inclusion of an open subscheme is an open immersion, so it identifies its source isomorphically with that open subscheme. (Open immersions of schemes)
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)
Fibre products of -schemes satisfy the projection-compatible isomorphism . (Symmetry, associativity and units)
Counterexample
The ring is an integral domain by [F5], so is a prime ideal and is a point of . The indeterminate satisfies in , so and therefore .
The principal ideal equals . For one has , so is contained in that set and in particular by [F4]; conversely, if then the constant coefficient of vanishes, so writing as its finite coefficient sum gives . Hence is a prime ideal: it is proper because , as ; and if then , so or because is an integral domain, and then or . Thus is a point of and , so .
The set is open in by [F2], and the inclusion of this open subscheme is an open immersion by [F7] whose image is exactly the subset . By steps 1.1 and 1.2 that image contains and omits , so it is a nonempty proper subset of .
The image is not closed in . If it were closed, then, the closed subsets of being the vanishing sets [F2], there would be an ideal with ; by [F5] the ideal is principal, , so . Since we get by [F3], that is , and then by [F3], contradicting the properness of the image recorded in step 2.1.
It follows that is not a closed map of topological spaces: the whole source is a closed subset of the source, and its image under is , which is not closed in by step 3.1.
Suppose were universally closed. Taking the identity morphism as test morphism, the definition [F8] would make the base-changed projection a closed map. By [F9] the scheme is projection-compatibly isomorphic to , and under this isomorphism the projection corresponds to , so would be a closed map, contradicting step 4.1. Therefore is not universally closed.
Since properness requires universal closedness by [F8], the open immersion is not proper; directly, if 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 and of 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 , and the elementary computation of step 1.2.
Depends on
- A polynomial ring over an integral domain is an integral domain
- For every field $F$, $F[x]$ is a principal ideal domain
- The underlying space of an affine spectrum
- The ideal generated by a subset and principal ideals
- Open immersions of schemes
- The polynomial ring over a commutative ring as finitely supported coefficient sequences with convolution
- Prime ideals and maximal ideals in a commutative ring
- The prime spectrum and vanishing sets
- Principal distinguished subsets of the prime spectrum
- Proper morphisms
- Schemes and morphisms over a base
- Universally closed morphisms
- Every field is a commutative ring with $1 \ne 0$; it is an integral domain, and it is a commutative division ring
- Symmetry, associativity and units
- Vanishing-set identities
- The vanishing sets define the Zariski topology on the prime spectrum
- Proper morphisms are closed
- Universal property of $R[x]$: a coefficient homomorphism and the image of $x$ determine a unique ring homomorphism
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Sources
- Stacks Project, Morphisms of Schemes, Definition 29.42.1 (tag 01W0) and §29.42 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Vakil, The Rising Sea, §11.3 discussion of properness (open immersions need not be proper) (standard reference, not scraped)