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Let $S=A\setminus \mathfrak{p}$, let $S$ act on $B$ through $\phi$, and write $\mathfrak{p}B$ for the extension of an ideal generated by $\phi (\mathfrak{p})$. Since $\kappa (\mathfrak{p})=S^{-1}(A/\mathfrak{p})$, the fiber ring has the canonical presentationsThe first isomorphism sends $b\otimes (\bar{a}/s)$ to $\phi (a)b/s$ modulo $\mathfrak{p}B$. Its inverse sends the class of $b/s$ to $b\otimes (\bar{1}/s)$. The tensor balancing relation, reduction modulo $\mathfrak{p}$ and the fraction relations show that these maps are well-defined and inverse. Thus the description is canonical and does not depend on chosen representatives.

Suppose $\mathfrak{q}$ is a prime ideal of $B$ with ${\phi }^{-1}(\mathfrak{q})=\mathfrak{p}$. Then $\mathfrak{p}B\subseteq \mathfrak{q}$ and $\mathfrak{q}$ is disjoint from $\phi (S)$. Its localization $S^{-1}\mathfrak{q}$ is a proper prime, since the quotient is the localization of the integral domain $B/\mathfrak{q}$. It contains $\mathfrak{p}{S}^{-1}B$, and therefore gives a primeConversely, for a prime $\mathfrak{Q}\subset C$, take its contraction $\mathfrak{q}$ under the ring homomorphism $\psi :B\to C$, $b\mapsto b\otimes 1$. Contraction preserves primality. Every $\phi (a)$ with $a\in \mathfrak{p}$ maps to zero, while every $\phi (s)$ with $s\in S$ maps to a unit and hence cannot belong to a proper prime. Thus ${\phi }^{-1}(\mathfrak{q})=\mathfrak{p}$.

These constructions are inverse. For a prime disjoint from $\phi (S)$, the fraction $b/1$ belongs to its localized extension exactly when some $s\in S$ has $\phi (s)b\in \mathfrak{q}$; primality then implies $b\in \mathfrak{q}$. In the other direction, every element of $C$ has a representative $b/s$, and membership in $\mathfrak{Q}$ is equivalent to membership of $b/1$ because the denominator is a unit. Hence $\mathfrak{Q}$ is recovered by extending its contraction and quotienting. We have proved the canonical fiber of the map on spectra correspondence:If a denominator maps to zero, the fiber ring is the zero ring and both sets are empty; the same argument includes this case.

The induced map on the spectrum of a commutative ring is contraction of an ideal:To see that it is well defined, let $\mathfrak{q}$ be a prime ideal of $S$. Its inverse image is an ideal of $R$, and it is proper because $\phi (1)=1\notin \mathfrak{q}$. If $ab\in {\phi }^{-1}(\mathfrak{q})$, then $\phi (a)\phi (b)\in \mathfrak{q}$, whence $\phi (a)\in \mathfrak{q}$ or $\phi (b)\in \mathfrak{q}$. This proves that the inverse image is a prime ideal.

For any ideal $I\subseteq R$, its extension of an ideal to $S$ is $IS=\phi (I)S$. We haveThus inverse images of Zariski-closed sets are Zariski-closed sets, which proves that $f$ is a continuous map.

There is an exact sequence of $R$-modulesIf $A$ is a flat module over $R$, tensoring this sequence with $A$ preserves its left exactness. The image of each tensor product inside $A$ is the corresponding extension of an ideal, soBoth displayed inclusions therefore hold. This is the flat extension preserves finite ideal intersections property.