Over a perfect field of characteristic , the scheme-theoretic fiber of the Absolute Frobenius morphism of over a rational point isIts underlying space is one point, but its coordinate ring has a nonzero nilpotent element, so the fibre is a length- nonreduced scheme.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 113 2 c Solution 2026-10-03
TakeThe 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.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 iii Paper 113 1 c Solution 2026-09-28
For a point , let be the image of in its residue field . The scheme-theoretic fiber isIf , then . The quadratic polynomial is irreducible. Indeed, after setting , any hypothetical linear factors must restrict, up to nonzero scalars, to and ; comparing the and coefficients then forces both coefficients to vanish, contradicting the nonzero coefficient. Hence its homogeneous coordinate ring is an integral domain, so is an integral scheme.
At the origin , the fiber is , the union of the two distinct projective lines and , and is therefore not irreducible. It is nevertheless a reduced scheme because the ideal equals its radical. Every other fiber is integral and hence reduced. Thus the fiber is integral exactly away from the origin, and it is reduced at every point of .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 152 3 b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
For a torus character , its principal divisor on a toric variety isHere , so on the blown-up fanThe scheme-theoretic fiber therefore contains the exceptional divisor with multiplicity two. Its defining ideal is not radical along that divisor, so is a nonreduced scheme.