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 xUV, there exists W=DU(f)=DV(g), a neighborhood of x, such that fA, gB, and WUV.

1) We would like to reduce to a simpler case. UV is an open subset of V. Hence there exists a principal open set D(g)UV with gB containing x. Then we may identify D(g)=Spec Bg. Therefore, we have xSpec BgSpec 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/gnBg and fA 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 xSpec BSpec A. Because Spec B is an open subscheme of Spec A, we have an open immersion i:Spec BSpec A. This comes with a morphism of sheaves OSpec AiOSpec 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 qρ1(q).

Pick fA such that D(f)Spec BSpec A. Observe that ρ(f)qfρ1(q) by definition. Conversely, if fρ1q, then ρ(f)ρ(ρ1q)q. Therefore, we have ρ(f)qfρ1q.

Until here, we only know that DSpec B(ρ(f))DSpec A(f) because D(f) might not all be of the form ρ1q. 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 USpec A with U an open affine subscheme with an isomorphism j:USpec B. Then ρ is restriction to U composed with the isomorphism AΓ(U,OSpec A|U)B. And view DSpec B(ρ(f)) as DU(jb(ρ(f)) where jb is the induced map of BΓ(U,OSpec A|U).

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