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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 iii Paper 113 2 ii Solution by
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Work first over an affine neighbourhood of , with an affine chart in its inverse image. The scheme-theoretic fibre on this chart has ringwhere is the residue field. The prime ideal correspondence for localization and the correspondence for a quotient identify its points with primes containing and disjoint from . These two conditions are exactly .
Under this bijection, each principal open corresponds to . These are bases for the two topologies: every element of the fibre ring is represented by , with the image of invertible. Thus the bijection is a homeomorphism. The identifications agree on overlapping charts and glue, provingThe scheme-theoretic fibre may nevertheless carry nilpotents, so this topological statement does not identify its structure sheaf with a naive restriction of .
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