Formal completion of a scheme ($X_{/Y}$)

For a closed subscheme with ideal sheaf $\mathcal{I}$ in a locally Noetherian scheme, the completion is the formal scheme on $|Y|$ with topological structure sheaf ${\underleftarrow{\lim }}_n({\mathcal{O}}_X/{\mathcal{I}}^{n+1}){|}_{|Y|}$. On a Noetherian affine scheme $\mathrm{Spec}A$, it is $\mathrm{Spf}({\underleftarrow{\lim }}_{n}A/I^{n+1})$. Its adic topology remembers every infinitesimal neighbourhood.

// Target: commutative-algebra.bigb

Restricting the topological structure sheaf of a formal completion of a scheme to an open subscheme commutes with its inverse limit: both sheaves are ${\underleftarrow{\lim }}_n({\mathcal{O}}_U/(\mathcal{I}{|}_U{)}^{n+1})$ on $|U\cap Y|$. Equivalently, the identical infinitesimal neighbourhoods have identical restricted structure sheaves. On formal affine charts this uses completed localization of an adic ring.

// Target: toric-geometry.bigb