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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 316:tensor product of commutative rings 95:), rather than for a single scheme 1000:are closed subschemes of a scheme 697:be a morphism of schemes, and let 160:In general, a morphism of schemes 27:Construction in algebraic geometry 25: 1161:Example: for any field extension 971:can be identified with a pair of 499:Interpretations and special cases 1242:Hartshorne (1977), section II.3. 749:is defined as the fiber product 705:. Then there is a morphism Spec( 251: 1189:if and only if the base change 137:is equivalent to a scheme over 110:In particular, a scheme over a 934: 928: 920: 914: 903: 897: 888: 882: 879: 860: 428: 409: 54:is a closely related notion. 1: 1356:Graduate Texts in Mathematics 1076:has property P. For example, 362:) for some commutative rings 1387:The Stacks Project Authors, 983:that have the same image in 540:is the affine space A over 1423: 1004:, then the fiber product 121:together with a morphism 1286:Stacks Project, Tag 02YJ 1270:Stacks Project, Tag 02WE 1254:Stacks Project, Tag 0C4I 1220:Stacks Project, Tag 020D 802:be schemes over a field 635:defined by the equation 578:means the fiber product 519:means the fiber product 40:fiber product of schemes 1304:Grothendieck, Alexandre 1155:faithfully flat descent 1035:Base change and descent 322:). In particular, when 944: 493:restriction of scalars 438: 280:whose compositions to 945: 834:of the fiber product 439: 245:, making the diagram 1169:, the morphism Spec( 857: 847:is easy to describe: 611:is the curve in the 381: 224:, there is a scheme 1051:has property P and 76:morphism of schemes 1390:The Stacks Project 1351:Algebraic Geometry 1330:10.1007/bf02684778 940: 826:. Then the set of 607:. 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Index

Product of schemes
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

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