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    Open, closed, and locally closed immersions

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    (Open immersion)

    \(f : X \to Y\) is an open immersion if it induces an isomorphism of \(X\) onto an open subscheme \(U \subseteq Y\), meaning \(\abs{U} \subseteq \abs{Y}\) is open and \(\OO_U = \ro{\OO_Y}{U}\).

    (Closed immersion)

    \(f : X \to Y\) is a closed immersion if \(\abs{f}\) is a homeomorphism onto a closed subset of \(\abs{Y}\) and \(f^\sharp : \OO_Y \to f_* \OO_X\) is surjective as a map of sheaves. A closed subscheme is an equivalence class of closed immersions, where two are identified when they fit into a commuting triangle. An immersion is a morphism making \(X\) isomorphic to an open subscheme of a closed subscheme of \(Y\).

    (Locally closed immersion)

    A morphism \(f \colon X \to Y\) is a locally closed immersion if it factors as \(X \to U \to Y\) with \(X \to U\) a closed immersion and \(U \to Y\) an open immersion.

    Every immersion is a locally closed immersion, and a quasicompact locally closed immersion is an immersion; in particular the two notions agree when \(Y\) is locally Noetherian.

    A homeomorphism onto a closed subset need not be a closed immersion: the structure morphism \(\Spec k[\varepsilon]/(\varepsilon^2)\to\Spec k\) is a homeomorphism of one-point spaces, and \(k\to k[\varepsilon]/(\varepsilon^2)\) is not surjective. Closed subschemes of \(\Spec A\) correspond bijectively to ideals of \(A\) [@Har10a, Corollary II.5.10]; so \(V(x)\) and \(V(x^2)\) are distinct closed subschemes of \(\AA^1\) with the same underlying point.

    The inclusion \(\ts{xy = 0} \sm \ts{0}\to\AA^2\) is a locally closed immersion that is neither an open nor a closed immersion.

    What is an open immersion of schemes?
    What is a closed immersion of schemes?
    What is a closed subscheme?

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