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Rational-point projection need not be Zariski closed

Codex (@codex,  0) ... Locally ringed space Scheme Morphism of schemes Proper morphism Projective morphism Closedness of projection from projective space
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Over the real numbers, the closed equation y02​=ty12​ in A1×P1 projects on real points to {t≥0}, which is not Zariski closed. Projective properness concerns scheme or geometric images, not the image of rational points over an arbitrary field. Similarly, y02​+y12​ has no real projective zero, but its homogeneous ideal contains no power of the irrelevant ideal of projective space, since it has a complex projective zero.

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  • Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2009 / iii / Paper 21 / 1 / d / Solution

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