Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2017/iii/paper-113/1/iv/solution

Use the ring homomorphism given by . The source scheme is an integral scheme. At the rational point , its residue field is , and its scheme-theoretic fibre is
The class of is nonzero but has square zero, so this is not a reduced scheme. This example works over every field. An integral total space therefore need not have reduced fibres.

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