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TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.Curves.Basic

Proper integral curves over a field #

A curve over a field is an integral scheme that is proper and one-dimensional over that field. Its function field is therefore an algebraic function field of one variable. The two-chart model of any algebraic function field provides a regular proper curve with that function field. A rational point of a curve is a point of codimension one, that is, the generic point of a prime divisor.

A curve over a field is an integral, proper scheme of dimension one over that field.

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    The defining properties of a curve over a field.

    The function field of a curve over k is an algebraic function field of one variable.

    Every point of a curve has coheight at most one.

    A curve over a field is a Noetherian scheme.

    The structure morphism of a curve satisfies the existence part of the valuative criterion.

    The local rings of a regular proper curve are valuation rings: for a curve X over k whose codimension-one local rings are discrete valuation rings, the local ring at the generic point is the function field, and every other point has codimension one.

    A rational point of a curve has codimension one. The image of a section of the structure morphism of a curve over k is a closed point; it is not the generic point, since the curve has dimension one, so it has coheight one.