Simultaneously principal open set.
For some reason, I have a hard time understanding the proof that in an intersection of two affine open subschemes, there exists an open set that is principal in both affine opens. Here is my attempt to make it slightly more clear.
The precise statement that I want to prove is the following. Let X be a scheme and U=Spec A and V=Spec B be two affine open subschemes of X. For all x∈U∩V, there exists W=DU(f)=DV(g), a neighborhood of x, such that f∈A, g∈B, and W⊂U∩V.
1) We would like to reduce to a simpler case. U∩V is an open subset of V. Hence there exists a principal open set D(g)⊂U∩V with g∈B containing x. Then we may identify D(g)=Spec Bg. Therefore, we have x∈Spec Bg⊂Spec A. Suppose we found an open set W containing x that is principal inside both Spec Bg and Spec A, then there exists some h/gn∈Bg and f∈A such that W=DSpec Bg(h/gn)=DSpec A(f). As
(Bg)h/gn=Bgh
we see that W=DV(gh)=DU(f), i.e. principal in both.
2) We may assume x∈Spec B⊂Spec A. Because Spec B is an open subscheme of Spec A, we have an open immersion i:Spec B→Spec A. This comes with a morphism of sheaves OSpec A→i∗OSpec B which is by definition the restriction map. Let ρ denote the restrction map from A to B. Then i:Spec A to Spec B is simply q↦ρ−1(q).
Pick f∈A such that D(f)⊂Spec B⊂Spec A. Observe that ρ(f)∈q⇒f∈ρ−1(q) by definition. Conversely, if f∈ρ−1q, then ρ(f)∈ρ(ρ−1q)⊂q. Therefore, we have ρ(f)∉q⇔f∉ρ−1q.
Until here, we only know that DSpec B(ρ(f))⊂DSpec A(f) because D(f) might not all be of the form ρ−1q. But because D(f)⊂Spec B, we may conclude that DSpec A(f)⊂DSpec B(ρ(f)).
Warning (To my self): As it is written, DSpec B(ρ(f))⊂DSpec A(f) does not make sense. To be very precise, we have U⊂Spec A with U an open affine subscheme with an isomorphism j:U→Spec B. Then ρ is restriction to U composed with the isomorphism A→Γ(U,OSpec A|U)→B. And view DSpec B(ρ(f)) as DU(jb(ρ(f)) where jb is the induced map of B→Γ(U,OSpec A|U).
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