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Principal distinguished subsets of the prime spectrum
Definition
Let be a commutative ring and let . The principal distinguished subset determined by is It is the complement of inside the set .
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- Proper birational normal curves agree off finitely many points Corollary
- The quasi-finite locus of a finite-type algebra is open Corollary
- The spectrum of a principal localisation is the distinguished open D(f) Corollary
- A nonclosed open immersion is not proper Counterexample
- A nonseparated affine cover can have nonaffine intersection Counterexample
- Quasi-finite does not imply finite Counterexample
- Quasi-separatedness in pushforward cannot be omitted Counterexample
- The localization presheaf on distinguished opens Definition
- The underlying space of an affine spectrum Definition
- A coherent closed-point skyscraper Example
- Finite power map of the affine line Example
- The distinguished subset D(x) matches the primes of the localization at x Example
- The spectrum of the integers has one generic point, closed points (p), and basic opens D(n) Example
- A finite unit-ideal expression yields a finite distinguished-open subcover Lemma
- A quasi-compact image stable under specialization is closed Lemma
- A quasi-compact immersion with nonclosed image has a boundary specialization Lemma
- An affine scheme of finite type over a field has a finitely generated coordinate ring Lemma
- An idempotent partitions the spectrum into complementary clopen subsets Lemma
- Birational morphisms restrict to isomorphisms between principal affine opens Lemma
- Closed gluing of two projective three-spaces is proper Lemma
- Closed immersion preserves cohomology and coherent pushforward Lemma
- Closed immersions are affine quotients and survive base change Lemma
- Constructible subsets stable under generalisation are open in an affine spectrum Lemma
- Distinguished-subset covers detect radicals Lemma
- Distinguished-subset identities Lemma
- Every point of a Zariski-open set has a distinguished-open neighbourhood inside it Lemma
- Every Zariski-open subset is a union of distinguished opens Lemma
- Function field of an integral finite-type scheme Lemma
- Pushouts of closed immersions exist Lemma
- Schematic closure and agreement on a dense open Lemma
- The spectrum of a finite product ring is the disjoint union of the factor spectra Lemma
- Valuation lifts detect universal closedness Lemma
- A quasi-finite algebra factors openly through a finite algebra Theorem
- Closed immersions into affine schemes are quotient spectra Theorem
- Global functions on proper integral schemes form a finite extension of the base field Theorem
- Normalization of an integral finite-type curve by gluing affine integral closures Theorem
- Projective n-space has quasi-coherent cohomological dimension at most n Theorem
- Sections and restrictions on distinguished opens of an affine scheme Theorem
- The smooth locus is open Theorem
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Sources
- J. S. Milne, A Primer of Commutative Algebra, v4.03, §14 The spectrum of a ring (standard reference, not scraped)
- The Stacks Project, Section 10.17: The spectrum of a ring (standard reference, not scraped)