Alphabeta Math
LemmaStatement: AI-adaptedProof: AI-adaptedPipeline-generatedverified 2026-09-26 (gpt-6-sol)
How statement and proof provenance work

The first chip identifies the source of the statement or construction; the second identifies the source of its local proof or verification.

  • Literature-sourced: the exact statement appears in a cited source; only wording and notation differ.
  • AI-adapted: a semantically identical restatement of literature-sourced material, modulo indexing, notation, and boundary cases adopted by the library.
  • AI-generated: a genuinely novel statement formulated by AI, with no source for the claim itself.

These labels describe origin, not correctness: citations and verification chips remain separate evidence.

Affineness is local on the target

Statement

Assume the Axiom of Choice. A morphism f:X→S is affine if and only if there exists an affine open cover S=⋃iUi for which every f−1(Ui) is affine.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The objects, hypotheses and conventions in the statement above, including the Axiom of Choice (The Axiom of Choice).

[F1]

A morphism of schemes f:X→S is affine when f−1(U) is affine for every affine open subscheme U⊆S. Here the inverse image carries the restricted structure sheaf, as in def-affine-open-subscheme, and f is a morphism of locally ringed spaces as in def-morphism-of-schemes. The empty scheme is affine, being Spec⁡0. Affineness of a morphism does not require its total source or target to be affine. (Affine morphisms)

[F2]

Let X be a scheme, R=Γ(X,OX), and f1,…,fn∈R. Write Xf for the open locus where the germ of f is a unit. If (f1,…,fn)=R and each Ui=Xfi is affine, then X is affine. In fact the canonical morphism X→Spec⁡R is an isomorphism. Empty X and n=0 are allowed. (Affineness from a finite principal cover)

[F3]

For f∈A, the morphism induced by A→Af identifies Spec⁡(Af) with the open locally ringed subspace D(f) of Spec⁡A. (A principal localization identifies its spectrum with a distinguished open)

[F4]

Every affine scheme is quasi-compact. (Every affine scheme is quasi-compact)

[F5]

Assume the Axiom of Choice (def-axiom-of-choice). In a nonzero commutative ring, every proper ideal is contained in a maximal ideal. (In a nonzero commutative ring, every proper ideal is contained in a maximal ideal)

Proof

1.1givenF1F3

If f is affine, F1 gives the condition on any affine cover. Conversely suppose such a cover is given and let V=Spec⁡A⊂S be arbitrary affine open. For v∈V∩Ui, choose a principal open DUi(a) containing v and contained in V. Choose a principal open DV(h) containing v and contained in DUi(a). On the affine DUi(a) the restriction of h is b/am, so DV(h) is also DUi(ab), a principal open of Ui.

2.1F3F4step 1.1F5

F4 gives finitely many such DV(hj) covering V. Their functions generate the unit ideal of A: if the ideal were proper F5 supplies a maximal, hence prime, ideal containing it would lie outside the cover, contrary to V=⋃jD(hj). Each f−1(DV(hj)) is principal in the affine f−1(Ui(j)), so it is affine by F3.

3.1F1F2step 2.1∎

The pullbacks of the hj are global sections of OX on f−1(V) generating 1. F2 shows that f−1(V) is affine. Since V was arbitrary, F1 proves f affine. Empty V, a singleton cover, nilpotents, and an empty source are included by F2 and the same formulas.

Depends on

Used by

Dependency tree · two levels

25 results within two dependency steps of this one, each drawn at its shortest distance from it. An arrow runs from a result to what uses it, so the chart reads left to right and ends at this result, which carries a heavier outline. Every node is a link to that result. Click elsewhere on the chart to enlarge it.

Sources