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 #
TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.EllipticCurveGeom.glueMorphisms E q g hg: the morphismY ⟶ Zglued from a familygof morphismsY ×_S U ⟶ Zover the basesUof the pointed Weierstrass charts ofE, compatible along morphisms of chart bases.
Main results #
TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.EllipticCurveGeom.fst_glueMorphisms: the glued morphism restricts to the given morphism over the base of every chart.TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.EllipticCurveGeom.existsUnique_isPullback_of_forall_chart: a pointed family which is the base change of a fixed family along a unique morphism over the base of every chart is the base change of that family along a unique morphism.TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.PointedWeierstrassAtlas.hom_ext: two morphisms out ofYthat agree over the bases of the charts of one pointed Weierstrass atlas of anyπ : X ⟶ Sare equal;TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.PointedWeierstrassAtlas.hom_ext_of_toTotalis the caseY = X, stated on the restrictions ofXto the chart bases.
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
On the preimage of the base of a chart c, the morphism glued from a compatible family g is
g c.
On the preimage of the base of a chart c, the morphism glued from a compatible family g is
g c.
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.