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Every representable functor is an algebraic space
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Choice inherited from the quotient/sheaf and descent suppliers (The Axiom of Choice). For every -scheme the representable presheaf (Presheaves, covariantly and contravariantly representable functors, and representations) is an algebraic space over (Algebraic spaces over a scheme, defined as fppf sheaves): is an fppf sheaf, its diagonal is representable by schemes because is a scheme (Existence of all scheme fibre products), and the identity is representable, etale and surjective. Consequently embeds the category of -schemes fully faithfully into the category of algebraic spaces over .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: An -scheme and its represented presheaf .
Representable presheaves are fppf sheaves, under the Axiom of Choice recorded there (Scheme morphisms satisfy fppf descent, Fppf sheaves of sets and sheafification).
An algebraic space over is an fppf sheaf whose diagonal is representable by schemes and which admits a representable etale surjective morphism from a scheme; a morphism of presheaves is representable by schemes when every fibre product along a morphism from a scheme is a scheme, and its fibrewise property is read on those base changes (Algebraic spaces over a scheme, defined as fppf sheaves, Representable morphisms of presheaves and fibrewise properties).
Fibre products of schemes exist and the Yoneda embedding preserves them: and more generally (Existence of all scheme fibre products, Fibre product of schemes, Presheaves, covariantly and contravariantly representable functors, and representations).
The identity morphism of a scheme is etale and surjective, and the representable presheaf of an -scheme is (Étale morphism of schemes, Presheaves, covariantly and contravariantly representable functors, and representations). Full faithfulness is proved directly in step 2.1 below.
Proof
The sheaf condition. is an fppf sheaf by [F1]: a morphism is determined by its restrictions to an fppf covering of and such restrictions glue uniquely, which is exactly the sheaf condition for the represented functor.
The diagonal. The diagonal corresponds under the Yoneda identification of [F3] to the morphism induced by the diagonal . To test representability, let be a morphism from a scheme , corresponding to a morphism ; the fibre product is then represented by the fibre product , which is a scheme by [F3]. Hence the diagonal is representable by schemes.
The etale cover. Condition 3 of [F2] is satisfied by the identity : it is representable, because for any the fibre product is a scheme, and it is etale and surjective because the identity of is etale and surjective by [F4] and representability is witnessed by the identity base changes. Hence is an algebraic space.
Full faithfulness. For -schemes and a natural transformation of the presheaves in [F4], put . For every -scheme and , naturality along gives , since . Thus determines every component of . Conversely any -morphism defines the natural transformation , because precomposition commutes with this formula; evaluating at recovers . These constructions are inverse, proving the required hom-set bijection without importing a full-faithfulness theorem from the representation definition. Together with step 1.3 this embeds schemes fully faithfully into algebraic spaces.
Depends on
- Fppf sheaves of sets and sheafification
- Representable morphisms of presheaves and fibrewise properties
- Algebraic spaces over a scheme, defined as fppf sheaves
- Presheaves, covariantly and contravariantly representable functors, and representations
- Scheme morphisms satisfy fppf descent
- Fibre product of schemes
- Existence of all scheme fibre products
- Étale morphism of schemes
- The Axiom of Choice
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Cited to discharge well-definedness by Algebraic spaces over a scheme, defined as fppf sheaves.
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Sources
- The Stacks Project, Chapter 65 (Algebraic Spaces), Lemma 65.6.2 (standard reference, not scraped)