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The punctured affine line is a principal open with Laurent-polynomial coordinate ring but is not closed in its ambient affine line

Example

Assume the Axiom of Choice, and let k be an algebraically closed field. Inside Ak1 with coordinate t, the punctured affine line is Ak1∖{0}=DAk1(t). Therefore Regular functions on a principal open are the principal localization of the coordinate ring identifies its regular-function ring with the principal localization k[t]t, the Laurent polynomial ring obtained by adjoining t−1.

By On the affine line, the classical Zariski topology is cofinite, the closed subsets of Ak1 are exactly the finite sets and the whole line. Hence {0} is closed, so its complement Ak1∖{0} is open; but that complement is not all of Ak1 and is infinite, so it is not closed. This is the basic quasi-affine example: it is affine as a principal open, but not as a closed subset of the ambient affine line.

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