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Separated is not Zariski Hausdorff
Remark
A morphism is separated when its diagonal is a closed immersion into the scheme-theoretic fibre product (Separated morphism of schemes). A topological space is Hausdorff exactly when its diagonal is closed in the ordinary product space, so the two conditions would be the same notion if the underlying space of were the topological product of with itself. It is not, and this is the only reason the analogy stops.
Concretely, take a field and . The continuous map on underlying spaces is surjective but not injective: the zero ideal and the prime of both contract to in each variable, because a polynomial lies in only when , and likewise for . So a point of the scheme-theoretic product carries strictly more information than a pair of points, and closedness of the diagonal in says nothing about pairs of distinct points of .
Accordingly, the affine line is separated over (Affine schemes and affine morphisms are separated), while its Zariski point space is far from Hausdorff. A nonempty open subset of is the complement of a closed set with , and the generic point lies in every such complement, so every two nonempty open subsets meet. Two distinct points of therefore never have disjoint open neighbourhoods. Separatedness of a scheme is a statement about the diagonal as a closed subscheme, not about the point-set topology of the scheme, and the two conventions must not be substituted for one another.
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- A separated scheme whose point space is not Hausdorff Counterexample
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Sources
- Ravi Vakil, The Rising Sea, Exercise 11.3.B and Section 10.1.2, printed p.308 (standard reference, not scraped)
- The Stacks Project, Schemes, Section 26.21 introduction, printed pp.39-40 (standard reference, not scraped)