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A smooth point has the exact finite-type excision pair

PDF p. 7: Lemma2.9: smooth-point supported purity

Statement

Assume AC and the completed universe bounds. Let X be a qcqs k-scheme of pure finite dimension d, where k is perfect, and let x be a closed point at which X→Spec⁡k is smooth. There is an affine smooth separated finite-type neighbourhood V of x, pure of dimension d. Its residue field L=κ(x) is finite separable over k, and Spec⁡L↪V has pure codimension d. Both X∖{x} and V∖{x} are qcqs. For every j≥0, actual EM Nisnevich descent gives the support-excision equivalence Cj,x(X)≃Cj,x(V), compatibly with support-to-global maps. Here Cj,x is the unshifted cohomological restriction fiber, not its [2j] spectral shift.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: Exactly the hypotheses above; smooth at x means smooth on some open neighbourhood, with the usual locally finite-presentation condition.

Goal: Verify the actual geometric and descent hypotheses before applying a classical purity theorem.

[F1]

Article scheme conventions and Motivic and filtered K theory with support give qcqs and support conventions. Elmanto–Morrow motivic complex input gives derived Nisnevich descent on this category. Open excision for a descent theory is the conditional excision theorem.

[F2]

External finite-type dimension, rational-point and etale-fiber inputs supplies finite-type dimensions, transcendence-degree dimensions of domains, and finite closed-point residue fields. Smooth finite-type schemes are regular Noetherian, with locally constant relative dimension.

Proof

1.1F2givenconstruct

Choose an affine open in the smooth neighbourhood containing x and shrink within its relative-dimension stratum. It is smooth separated finite type over k, pure of some dimension e. In the usual finite-type setting, purity of X and [F2] give e=d. The same conclusion holds if only qcqs X is assumed: let T be the reduced irreducible component through the chosen local smooth component, with function field K. Its finite-type nonempty open has dimension e=trdeg⁡kK. Every affine coordinate domain on T is a subalgebra of K; any finite strict prime chain in it remains strict in some finitely generated k-subalgebra, by choosing one witness for each strict inclusion. That subalgebra has dimension at most trdeg⁡kK=e. Every finite specialization chain in T lies in an affine open containing its most special point. Hence dim⁡T≤e, while its open of dimension e gives the reverse inequality. Purity of X gives dim⁡T=d, so e=d. Denote the resulting neighbourhood by V.

2.1F1F2step 1.1

Since x is closed in V, [F2] gives finite L/k; perfectness makes it separable. Thus both V and Spec⁡L belong to the smooth separated finite-type category, and the dimension formula gives codimension d. The open V∖{x} is quasi-compact because V is Noetherian. To prove X∖{x} quasi-compact without imposing global Noetherianness, take any open cover of it. Together with V it covers quasi-compact X, so finitely many members plus V suffice. Finitely many members also cover quasi-compact V∖{x}. These two finite selections cover X∖{x}. Quasi-separatedness is inherited by open subschemes.

3.1F1step 2.1∎

The two opens V and X∖{x} cover X, with intersection V∖{x}. They form a Nisnevich two-open cover, and all four objects are qcqs by step 2.1. Apply the actual derived Nisnevich descent of [F1] and then its conditional excision theorem. This supplies exactly the claimed restriction-induced support equivalence and support-to-global compatibility for every nonnegative weight.

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