Functor represented by a scheme
ID: functor-represented-by-a-scheme
The functor of points describes a scheme through its morphisms from test schemes. On commutative rings, it is covariant because a ring homomorphism reverses the corresponding affine-scheme map. A functor on rings is represented by in the algebraic-geometric sense when it is naturally isomorphic to . The representing scheme need not be affine; this is different from demanding a representable functor in the category of rings itself.
// Target: module-theory.bigb
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