Let , let act on through , and write for the extension of an ideal generated by . Since , the fiber ring has the canonical presentations
The first isomorphism sends to modulo . Its inverse sends the class of to . The tensor balancing relation, reduction modulo 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 is a prime ideal of with . Then and is disjoint from . Its localization is a proper prime, since the quotient is the localization of the integral domain . It contains , and therefore gives a prime
Conversely, for a prime , take its contraction under the ring homomorphism , . Contraction preserves primality. Every with maps to zero, while every with maps to a unit and hence cannot belong to a proper prime. Thus .
These constructions are inverse. For a prime disjoint from , the fraction belongs to its localized extension exactly when some has ; primality then implies . In the other direction, every element of has a representative , and membership in is equivalent to membership of because the denominator is a unit. Hence 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 prime ideal correspondence for localization identifies primes of with primes of disjoint from . Passing to the quotient by retains exactly those containing . Thus the image is the fiber of the map on spectra: