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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 113 1 a Solution by
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For the requested example, take the affine plane with doubled origin: glue two copies by the identity onThe opens and are affine, while their intersection is the punctured affine plane, which is not affine. Indeed, its regular functions are still ; if it were affine, the canonical map to would be an isomorphism, contrary to the missing origin. The resulting scheme is not separated: in a separated scheme, the intersection of two affine opens is the inverse image of the closed diagonal inside their affine product and is therefore affine.
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