Search the corpus

    Morphisms

    Let \(f,g\colon X\to Y\) be morphisms of \(S\)-schemes with \(X\) reduced and \(Y\) separated over \(S\). If \(f\) and \(g\) agree on a dense open subset of \(X\), then \(f=g\). Separatedness is needed: the two open immersions of \(\AA^1_k\) into the line with doubled origin agree on \(\AA^1_k\setminus\{0\}\). Reducedness is needed: on \(X=\Spec k[x,\varepsilon]/(\varepsilon^2,x\varepsilon)\), the morphisms \(X\to\AA^1_k\) given by \(0\) and \(\varepsilon\) agree on the dense open subset \(D(x)\), where \(\varepsilon=0\).

    • Separated and proper, the diagonal, the valuative criteria, and the counterexamples for each dropped hypothesis.

    • Finite and flat, going up and going down, finite flat morphisms, and the Hilbert polynomial in flat families.

    • Classes of morphism, the immersions, the affine and finite and projective chain, and what survives base change.

    • Smooth, unramified, and étale, the Jacobian criterion, ramification of curve morphisms, regularity against smoothness over imperfect fields, and the failure of generic smoothness for Frobenius.

    • Fibres and images, the fibre dimension theorem, Zariski’s main theorem, and Stein factorisation.

    • Inseparable morphisms and Lüroth, the Frobenius twist, purely inseparable morphisms of curves as composites of Frobenius morphisms, and Lüroth’s theorem.

    What links to this