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Flat locally finitely presented restrictions give open subquotients
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Choice inherited from the quotient-sheaf suppliers (The Axiom of Choice). Let be an equivalence relation over (Groupoids in schemes, relations and etale equivalence relations) with surjective, flat and locally of finite presentation (Flat morphism of schemes, Locally finite presentation morphisms), and let be flat and locally of finite presentation. Form (Restriction of an etale equivalence relation). Then is representable by schemes and an open immersion. Its image is the open subquotient corresponding to the saturated open . It is an isomorphism when , in particular when is surjective. No isomorphism or surjectivity is asserted for arbitrary . Here quotient sheaves are those of The fppf quotient sheaf of a pre-relation.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: An equivalence relation over with surjective flat and locally of finite presentation; a flat locally finitely presented ; the restriction and the quotient sheaves , .
The restriction with is again an equivalence relation, and each structure map is a composition of a base change of and a base change of or (Groupoids in schemes, relations and etale equivalence relations, Restriction of an etale equivalence relation).
is the fppf sheafification of the naive quotient presheaf; a section of over a scheme is represented fppf-locally by a morphism , and two such local representatives define the same section exactly when they differ fppf-locally by a point of . The construction uses AC (The fppf quotient sheaf of a pre-relation, Sheafification exists for the fppf site, Fppf sheaves of sets and sheafification).
A flat morphism locally of finite presentation is universally open, and flat and locally finitely presented morphisms are stable under base change (Flat finite-presentation morphisms are open, Flatness is stable under arbitrary base change).
AC: every family of nonempty sets indexed by a set has a choice function (The Axiom of Choice).
Proof
The saturated open. Put , open because is universally open by [F3], and , open because is universally open by [F3]. The set is saturated: if with , say with , then lift to a common residue-field extension over their shared point (the tensor product of their residue fields is nonzero); transitivity gives with and , so ; the reverse inclusion is immediate from the identity of . Hence , and is the saturated open generated by .
Injectivity and image of . The morphism induces a map of quotient sheaves . If have the same image in , then after an fppf covering of there is a witness with , ; both and then lie in , so the witness lands in in both coordinates and defines a point of , whence already have the same image in . Thus is injective. Moreover a section lies in the image of exactly when, fppf-locally, it is -equivalent to a point of , that is, exactly when factors through the open . For the reverse implication, the map induced by is surjective flat and locally finitely presented: it is a composition of base changes of and , and its image is . Pulling it back along supplies an fppf cover with the desired representative in . For arbitrary sections of injectivity follows by choosing local representatives in and applying the sheaf uniqueness condition.
Local presentation of a section. Let be a morphism. By [F2] there is an fppf covering and morphisms whose images in equal . For each ordered pair the two pullbacks and on agree in , so there are initially fppf-local transition morphisms into . They are unique, since is a monomorphism, and therefore agree on overlaps and descend to global transition morphisms by the represented-sheaf assertion of Fppf sheaves of sets and sheafification, with and . Put , open. Then , using the saturation of step 1.1. Define ; each is open by [F3], so is open, and : the inclusion is clear, while a point maps into some , so the pair lies in and hence .
represents . First, the composite lies in : since is an fppf covering and is a sheaf, it suffices to show that each lies in ; the morphism is a base change of and of , hence surjective flat and locally of finite presentation by [F1] and [F3], and the restriction of to factors through by construction, so the sheaf property of gives the claim. Conversely, let satisfy . After the fppf base change we may assume for some ; the condition means that there is an fppf covering and morphisms whose images in the quotient equal those of . Refining once more by [F2] supplies morphisms with and , so the image of lies in ; hence factors through fppf-locally, and therefore globally. This proves .
Conclusion. By step 3.1 every base change of along a morphism from a scheme is an open subscheme of the source, so is representable by schemes and an open immersion; its image is determined by the saturated open of step 1.1. If , then step 1.2 shows the image of in contains every section of , hence all of by the sheaf property, and injectivity makes an isomorphism. If is surjective then (the image of a surjective morphism is all of ) and because is surjective. The Axiom of Choice is used exactly through the quotient-sheaf data of [F2], which enters in steps 1.2-2.1.
Depends on
- Fppf coverings and the fppf site
- Fppf sheaves of sets and sheafification
- Sheafification exists for the fppf site
- The fppf quotient sheaf of a pre-relation
- Groupoids in schemes, relations and etale equivalence relations
- Restriction of an etale equivalence relation
- Flat morphism of schemes
- Locally finite presentation morphisms
- Fibre product of schemes
- Flatness is stable under arbitrary base change
- Equivalence relation, equivalence class, and the quotient set $A/{\sim}$
- Flat finite-presentation morphisms are open
- The Axiom of Choice
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Sources
- The Stacks Project, Chapter 65 (Algebraic Spaces), Section 65.10, Lemma 65.10.2 (standard reference, not scraped)