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Etale morphisms are universally open and quasi-finite at every point
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Choice (The Axiom of Choice). Let be 'etale (Étale morphism of schemes).
- is flat and locally of finite presentation (Flat morphism of schemes, Locally finite presentation morphisms) and therefore universally open (Open and universally open morphisms of schemes).
- is quasi-finite at every point in the pointwise sense of the definition of quasi-finiteness: with there are affine neighbourhoods of and of with and of finite type such that the fibre algebra is finite-dimensional over , the prime of and (Quasi-finite morphisms of schemes, Quasi-finiteness at a prime of a finite-type algebra); in fact , a finite separable extension of .
- If in addition is quasi-compact, then is of finite type and quasi-finite in the sense of Quasi-finite morphisms of schemes. The distinction between the local statement 2 and the global statement 3 is essential: 'etale by itself is a local condition and need not be of finite type.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The data and hypotheses displayed in the Statement, with the conventions fixed there.
'Etale at means smooth at of relative dimension , i.e. locally of finite presentation at , flat at , and geometrically regular fibres of local dimension at the points over ; is 'etale when this holds at every point, and a smooth morphism is flat and locally of finite presentation at each of its points (Étale morphism of schemes, Smooth morphism of schemes, Flat morphism of schemes, Locally finite presentation morphisms).
Assume AC. A morphism that is flat and locally of finite presentation is universally open, hence open: every base change of is an open map (Flat finite-presentation morphisms are open, Open and universally open morphisms of schemes).
Assume AC. For locally of finite presentation, is 'etale at if and only if is flat at and unramified at ; unramified at means locally of finite type at together with formal unramifiedness, equivalently (Étale equals flat and unramified in finite presentation, Unramified morphism, Formal unramifiedness iff Omega vanishes).
Assume AC. If is locally of finite type at and , then is a finite separable extension and (Unramified residue extensions are finite separable).
is quasi-finite at a prime of a finite type chart when is a finite-dimensional -algebra, and this quotient is the local ring of the scheme-theoretic fibre at ; is quasi-finite when it is of finite type and this holds at every point, while a morphism is of finite type exactly when it is locally of finite type and quasi-compact (Quasi-finite morphisms of schemes, Quasi-finiteness at a prime of a finite-type algebra, Scheme-theoretic fibre, Locally finite type and finite type morphisms).
The Axiom of Choice states that every family of nonempty sets has a choice function (The Axiom of Choice).
Proof
Flatness, finite presentation and universal openness. Since is 'etale it is smooth of relative dimension at every point, hence flat and locally of finite presentation at every point by [F1], i.e. is flat and locally of finite presentation. By [F2] (AC) is universally open, so claim 1 holds.
Local quasi-finiteness at a point. Let and . By [F1] is locally of finite presentation at ; by [F3] (AC) in the forward direction, applied at , the morphism is unramified at , so . By [F4] the extension is finite separable and . Choose a finite type affine chart of over with , with the prime of and ; the fibre algebra is by [F5], a finite-dimensional -vector space because is finite and for the affine chart. Hence is quasi-finite at in the pointwise sense of [F5].
Global consequence under quasi-compactness. Assume in addition that is quasi-compact. Since is locally of finite presentation by [F1], it is locally of finite type, so by [F5] is of finite type. By step 1.2 the pointwise quasi-finiteness condition holds at every point of , so is quasi-finite by [F5]. Claim 2 is step 1.2 and claim 3 is this step; the local statement 2 does not require quasi-compactness, which is exactly what the finite type hypothesis of the global notion adds.
Boundary and choice accounting. If is empty then every pointwise condition is vacuous and claims 1, 2 and 3 hold vacuously, including the empty source case of quasi-finiteness recorded in [F5]; the Axiom of Choice [F6] is assumed in the Statement and used exactly through [F2] in step 1.1 and through [F3] and [F4] in step 1.2, while steps 2.1 and this step add no choice. [F2, F3, F4, F5, F6, step 1.1, step 1.2, step 2.1]
Depends on
- Étale morphism of schemes
- Flat morphism of schemes
- Flat finite-presentation morphisms are open
- Open and universally open morphisms of schemes
- Quasi-finite morphisms of schemes
- Quasi-finiteness at a prime of a finite-type algebra
- Scheme-theoretic fibre
- Étale equals flat and unramified in finite presentation
- Formal unramifiedness iff Omega vanishes
- Unramified morphism
- Unramified residue extensions are finite separable
- Locally finite type and finite type morphisms
- Locally finite presentation morphisms
- Smooth morphism of schemes
- The Axiom of Choice
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Sources
- The Stacks Project, Morphisms of Schemes, Section 29.36 (etale morphisms are open and quasi-finite, tag 02G4) (standard reference, not scraped)
- Ravi Vakil, The Rising Sea, 29 August 2022 public draft, Chapter 26 (etale maps are open and quasi-finite) (standard reference, not scraped)