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TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.EllipticCurve.Scheme.Geom.Glue

Gluing morphisms along the pointed Weierstrass charts of an elliptic curve #

Let E be an elliptic curve over a scheme S and q : Y ⟶ S a morphism of schemes. The bases of the pointed Weierstrass charts of E are affine opens of S covering S, so their preimages Y ×_S U cover Y. This file glues morphisms out of Y along this cover: a family of morphisms Y ×_S U ⟶ Z, one for each chart, glues to a morphism Y ⟶ Z as soon as it is compatible with the morphisms of chart bases over S.

Compatibility is only required along morphisms of bases, not on the overlaps of the cover. Two charts c and d agree near every point of U_c ∩ U_d because, around each such point, the restriction of c to an affine open of its base mapping into U_d is again a chart, whose base maps both to U_c and to U_d.

This is how the morphisms of the group law of E, defined on each chart through its Weierstrass equation, become morphisms over the whole of S: for the addition E ×_S E ⟶ E, Y = E ×_S E; for the negation E ⟶ E, Y = E.

The same gluing turns a universal property over affine bases into one over arbitrary bases. Let p : U ⟶ B be a family of curves with sections, such as a universal Weierstrass normal form. If the projective model of every chart of E, with the sections induced by given sections of E, is the base change of p along a unique morphism, compatibly with the sections, then so is E (TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.EllipticCurveGeom.existsUnique_isPullback_of_forall_chart).

Main definitions #

Main results #

Morphisms are determined on the charts of an atlas. Two morphisms out of Y that agree on the preimages Y ×_S U of the bases U of the charts of a pointed Weierstrass atlas of π are equal.

Morphisms out of X are determined on the charts of an atlas. Two morphisms out of X that agree on the restrictions of X to the bases of the charts of a pointed Weierstrass atlas of π are equal.

Gluing along the charts of an elliptic curve. The morphism Y ⟶ Z glued from a family g of morphisms Y ×_S U ⟶ Z, one over the base U of each pointed Weierstrass chart of E, that is compatible with the morphisms of chart bases over S: if the base of a chart k maps to the base of a chart c, then g c restricts to g k. Its restriction to every chart is the given morphism (fst_glueMorphisms).

Instances For

    Classifying pairs #

    Classifying pairs glue along the charts. Let p : U ⟶ B be a morphism of schemes with sections t₀ and t i, and let E be an elliptic curve over S with sections σ i. Suppose that over the base of every pointed Weierstrass chart c of E there is a unique pair of a morphism f : Spec c.ring ⟶ B and a morphism g from the projective model of the equation of c to U such that g exhibits the model as the base change of p along f, carrying the zero section to t₀ and the model point of each σ i to t i. Then there is a unique such pair for E itself.

    This is how a universal family over B, such as a universal Weierstrass normal form, becomes a fine moduli space over arbitrary bases once its universal property is known over affine bases.