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Separated is not Zariski Hausdorff

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A morphism is separated when its diagonal is a closed immersion into the scheme-theoretic fibre product X×SX (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 X×SX were the topological product of ∣X∣ with itself. It is not, and this is the only reason the analogy stops.

Concretely, take a field k and X=Spec⁡k[t]. The continuous map ∣Spec⁡k[x,y]∣→∣Spec⁡k[x]∣×∣Spec⁡k[y]∣ on underlying spaces is surjective but not injective: the zero ideal and the prime (x−y) of k[x,y] both contract to (0) in each variable, because a polynomial f(x) lies in (x−y) only when f=0, and k[x]∩(x−y)=0 likewise for y. So a point of the scheme-theoretic product carries strictly more information than a pair of points, and closedness of the diagonal in X×SX says nothing about pairs of distinct points of ∣X∣.

Accordingly, the affine line Ak1 is separated over k (Affine schemes and affine morphisms are separated), while its Zariski point space is far from Hausdorff. A nonempty open subset of Spec⁡k[t] is the complement of a closed set V(f) with f≠0, and the generic point (0) lies in every such complement, so every two nonempty open subsets meet. Two distinct points of ∣Ak1∣ 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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