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with certain properties. (There are different conventions for exactly which schemes should be called "varieties". One standard choice is that a variety over a field
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might be the empty scheme, in which case the pulled-back morphism loses all information about the original morphism. But if the morphism
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up to a unique isomorphism, if it exists. The proof that fiber products of schemes always do exist reduces the problem to the
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is a fundamental construction. It has many interpretations and special cases. For example, the fiber product describes how an
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determines a variety over a bigger field, or the pullback of a family of varieties, or a fiber of a family of varieties.
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that makes the diagram commute. As always with universal properties, this condition determines the scheme
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defined by the same equation. Many properties of an algebraic variety over a field
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is a broad setting for algebraic geometry. A fruitful philosophy (known as
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Grothendieck, EGA I, Théorème 3.2.6; Hartshorne (1977), Theorem II.3.3.
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Formally: it is a useful property of the category of schemes that the
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have property P? Clearly this is impossible in general: for example,
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In some cases, the fiber product of schemes has a right adjoint, the
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can be imagined as a family of schemes parametrized by the points of
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refers to the reverse question: if the pulled-back morphism
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Some important properties P of morphisms of schemes are
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always exists. That is, for any morphisms of schemes
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This is exactly the fiber product 305:tensor product of commutative rings 84:), rather than for a single scheme 13: 989:are closed subschemes of a scheme 686:be a morphism of schemes, and let 149:In general, a morphism of schemes 16:Construction in algebraic geometry 14: 1407: 1369: 1150:Example: for any field extension 960:can be identified with a pair of 488:Interpretations and special cases 1231:Hartshorne (1977), section II.3. 738:is defined as the fiber product 694:. Then there is a morphism Spec( 240: 1178:if and only if the base change 126:is equivalent to a scheme over 99:In particular, a scheme over a 1225: 1216: 923: 917: 909: 903: 892: 886: 877: 871: 868: 849: 417: 398: 43:is a closely related notion. 1: 1345:Graduate Texts in Mathematics 1285: 1065:has property P. For example, 351:) for some commutative rings 46: 1376:The Stacks Project Authors, 972:that have the same image in 7: 529:is the affine space A over 10: 1412: 993:, then the fiber product 110:together with a morphism 1275:Stacks Project, Tag 02YJ 1259:Stacks Project, Tag 02WE 1243:Stacks Project, Tag 0C4I 1209:Stacks Project, Tag 020D 1194: 791:be schemes over a field 624:defined by the equation 567:means the fiber product 508:means the fiber product 29:fiber product of schemes 1293:Grothendieck, Alexandre 1144:faithfully flat descent 1024:Base change and descent 311:). In particular, when 933: 482:restriction of scalars 427: 269:whose compositions to 934: 823:of the fiber product 428: 234:, making the diagram 1158:, the morphism Spec( 846: 836:is easy to describe: 600:is the curve in the 370: 213:, there is a scheme 1040:has property P and 65:morphism of schemes 1379:The Stacks Project 1340:Algebraic Geometry 1319:10.1007/bf02684778 929: 815:. Then the set of 596:. 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Index

mathematics
algebraic geometry
algebraic variety
field
category
schemes
Grothendieck's relative point of view
morphism of schemes
algebraic curves
commutative ring
Spec
integral separated
finite type
fiber product

commutative
universal
tensor product of commutative rings
gluing schemes
affine schemes
restriction of scalars
field extension
projective plane
real numbers
complex
algebraic closure
residue field
rational points
intersection
flat morphisms

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