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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 t1.

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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