Over a perfect field of characteristic , the scheme-theoretic fiber of the Absolute Frobenius morphism of over a rational point is
Its underlying space is one point, but its coordinate ring has a nonzero nilpotent element, so the fibre is a length- nonreduced scheme.
On every open set , define . In characteristic of a ring , the binomial theorem gives , so these are ring homomorphisms; they commute with restrictions and hence define a morphism of sheaves of rings.
On an affine chart , the inverse image of a prime ideal under the Frobenius endomorphism is
by primality. The induced continuous map is therefore the identity. These local morphisms agree on overlaps, giving the Absolute Frobenius morphism . Its action on the underlying space and on every local section was prescribed, so the morphism is unique.
Take
The global regular functions on projective space give , on which the Absolute Frobenius morphism is the identity. On the standard affine line , however, its map on functions is , which is not surjective. Thus is not an isomorphism of schemes.
Choose the rational closed point given by . The affine formula for a fibre product of schemes gives its scheme-theoretic fiber:
This is the Fibre of absolute Frobenius over a rational point of the affine line: it is a one-point, length- nonreduced scheme, rather than a reduced point.