The projective line over a commutative ring #
The projective line over a commutative ring R is ℙ¹_R = Proj R[X₀, X₁], written here, following
the convention of TauCeti.SymmetricAlgebra.projToSpec, as the projective spectrum of the
symmetric algebra of R², whose two standard basis vectors are the homogeneous coordinates X₀ and
X₁.
It is covered by the two standard affine charts D₊(Xᵢ). The chart D₊(Xᵢ) is the spectrum of
the degree-zero part R[X₀, X₁]_(Xᵢ) of the localization away from Xᵢ, and dehomogenization,
setting Xᵢ = 1 and the other coordinate to X, identifies it with the polynomial ring R[X]:
the fraction p / Xᵢⁿ of a form p of degree n goes to p with Xᵢ = 1.
Each chart Spec R[X] ⟶ ℙ¹_R is a schematically dense open immersion over any ring.
The projective line ℙ¹_R is proper over R, as the Proj of the symmetric algebra of a finite
module
(TauCeti.SymmetricAlgebra.instIsProperOver), and smooth of relative dimension one over R, since
each chart is the affine line Spec R[X]; it is integral when R is a domain, and its local
rings are regular when R is a regular ring. Its formation commutes with every change of base
ring R → S: ℙ¹_S is the fibre product ℙ¹_R ×_{Spec R} Spec S. Over a domain, its function
field is the fraction field R(X) of the ring R[X] of functions on the chart D₊(X₀), the
function X₁ / X₀ on that chart going to X.
Main definitions #
TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine R: the projective line overR, a scheme overSpec R.TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.coord R i: the homogeneous coordinateXᵢ.TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.dehomogenize R i: settingXᵢ = 1and the other coordinate toX, anR-algebra mapR[X₀, X₁] → R[X].TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.awayEquivPolynomial R i: the ring of the chartD₊(Xᵢ)isR[X].TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.awayι R i: the open immersion of that chart.TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.polynomialChartι R i: that chart with source literallySpec R[X].TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.infinitySection R: the section[0 : 1]; over a fieldK,TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.infinity Kis its single image point.TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.chartSectionsEquiv R i: the functions on the chartD₊(Xᵢ)are the polynomialsR[X].TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.baseChangeProjection R S: for anR-algebraS, the projectionℙ¹_S ⟶ ℙ¹_R.TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.functionFieldEquiv R: over a domainR, the function field ofℙ¹_RisR(X), as anR-algebra.
Main results #
TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.exists_eq_coord_pow_mul_add_coord_pow_mul: a form of degreek + lwithk ≤ l + 1isX₀ᵏ a + X₁ᵏ bfor formsaandbof degreel.TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.exists_eq_coord_pow_mul_add_coord_pow_mul_add: fork = l + m + 2, a form of degreek + lisX₀ᵏ a + X₁ᵏ b + (X₀X₁)ˡ⁺¹ cwithcof degreem.TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.coord_mem_nonZeroDivisors: homogeneous coordinates are nonzerodivisors over any ring, so everypolynomialChartιis schematically dense.TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.opensRange_polynomialChartιandTauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.polynomialChartι_preimage_basicOpen_rev: the chart ranges are the standard basic opens and their overlap is the locus whereXis invertible.TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.range_polynomialChartι_union_range_polynomialChartι: the two ranges cover.TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.range_infinitySection: the infinity section is the complement of the zeroth chart over any ring; it is a closed immersion and misses that chart byTauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.infinitySection_notMem_range_polynomialChartι.TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.compl_range_polynomialChartι: over a field the complement is the singletoninfinity.TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.awayEquivPolynomial_mk: the chart isomorphism sendsp / Xᵢⁿto the dehomogenization ofp.TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.iSup_basicOpen_coord_eq_top,TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.exists_eq_awayιandTauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.basicOpen_coord_sup_eq_top: the two charts coverℙ¹_R, and byTauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.isAffineOpen_basicOpen_coordeach chart is affine.TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.chartSectionsEquiv_awayToSection: on the chartD₊(Xᵢ),chartSectionsEquivagrees with the chart isomorphism on the fractionsProj.awayToSection a, andTauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.awayToSection_algebraMap: the constants restrict to the fractionsc / 1, andTauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.val_map_baseRingToGlobalSections: on every open, the constant global functionrtakes the valuerin every localization.TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.isIntegral:ℙ¹_Ris integral over a domain.TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.isRegularLocalRing_stalk: its local rings are regular over a regular ring.TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.smoothOfRelativeDimension:ℙ¹_Ris smooth of relative dimension one overSpec R.TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.isPullback_baseChangeProjection:ℙ¹_Sis the base change ofℙ¹_RalongSpec S ⟶ Spec R.TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.functionFieldEquiv_germToFunctionField: on the chartD₊(X₀), the identification of the function field withR(X)ischartSectionsEquiv.TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.functionFieldEquiv_symm_X: that identification sends the functionX₁ / X₀toX.TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.natDegree_dehomogenize_leandTauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.dehomogenize_eq_zero_iff: dehomogenizing a form of degreejgives a polynomial of degree at mostj, and is injective on such forms.TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.projectiveLine.eq_zero_of_coord_pow_mul_eq: a formcof degreemwithX₀ᵏ X₁ᵏ' c = (X₀X₁)ᵐ⁺¹ (X₁ᵏ' a - X₀ᵏ b), forbof degreek' - m - 2, vanishes.
References #
- R. Hartshorne, Algebraic Geometry, GTM 52, Springer, 1977, Section II.2.
- The Stacks Project, Section 27.8 (the projective spectrum of a graded ring).
The projective line ℙ¹_R = Proj R[X₀, X₁] over a commutative ring R: the projective
spectrum of the symmetric algebra of R², whose standard basis vectors are the homogeneous
coordinates. It is a scheme over Spec R through TauCeti.SymmetricAlgebra.projToSpec, proper
by TauCeti.SymmetricAlgebra.instIsProperOver.
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The homogeneous coordinate Xᵢ of the projective line: the i-th standard basis vector of
R², in degree one of the symmetric algebra.
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The homogeneous coordinates have degree one.
Each homogeneous coordinate is a nonzerodivisor, even over a nonreduced base ring.
A linear form is the combination of the two homogeneous coordinates with its coefficients.
Forms of degree at least 2k - 1 lie in the ideal (X₀ᵏ, X₁ᵏ). A form of degree k + l
with k ≤ l + 1 is X₀ᵏ a + X₁ᵏ b for forms a and b of degree l: each of its monomials
X₀ᵖ X₁^q, with p + q = k + l ≥ 2k - 1, has p ≥ k or q ≥ k.
For k = l + m + 2, a form of degree k + l is X₀ᵏ a + X₁ᵏ b + (X₀X₁)ˡ⁺¹ c with a and b
of degree l and c of degree m: a monomial X₀ᵅ X₁ᵝ of degree k + l with α, β < k has
α, β ≥ l + 1.
Dehomogenization at Xᵢ: the R-algebra map R[X₀, X₁] → R[X] setting Xᵢ = 1 and the
other homogeneous coordinate to X.
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Dehomogenization at Xᵢ sends Xᵢ to 1.
Dehomogenization at Xᵢ sends the other homogeneous coordinate to X.
Dehomogenizing a form of degree j gives a polynomial of degree at most j.
The standard affine charts #
The chart ring of D₊(Xᵢ) is a polynomial ring: dehomogenization identifies the
degree-zero part R[X₀, X₁]_(Xᵢ) of the localization away from Xᵢ with R[X].
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The chart isomorphism sends p / Xᵢⁿ to the dehomogenization of p.
Dehomogenization is injective on forms of a fixed degree: a form of degree j vanishes
once it does after setting Xᵢ = 1.
If X₀ᵏ X₁ᵏ' c = (X₀X₁)ᵐ⁺¹ (X₁ᵏ' a - X₀ᵏ b) for a form c of degree m and a form b of
degree k' - m - 2, then c = 0: after setting X₀ = 1, the coefficients of X^{k' + i},
i ≤ m, of the right-hand side vanish.
The inverse of the chart isomorphism sends X to the other coordinate over Xᵢ.
The open immersion of the standard affine chart D₊(Xᵢ) = Spec R[X₀, X₁]_(Xᵢ) into the
projective line.
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On the chart D₊(Xᵢ), the structure morphism of the projective line is Spec of the
inclusion of the constants.
On the chart D₊(Xᵢ), the structure morphism of the projective line is Spec of the
inclusion of the constants.
The standard affine chart of the projective line, with source literally Spec R[X].
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The polynomial chart is the chart-ring equivalence followed by the standard open immersion.
Every standard polynomial chart of the projective line is schematically dense.
Each polynomial chart is a morphism over Spec R.
Each polynomial chart is a morphism over Spec R.
The image of the polynomial chart is the standard projective basic open.
The two polynomial charts meet where their polynomial coordinate is invertible.
A point of one polynomial chart lies in the other chart exactly off its zero locus.
The standard charts D₊(Xᵢ) cover the projective line.
The two standard charts cover the projective line.
The standard charts D₊(X₀) and D₊(X₁) cover the projective line.
The overlap D₊(X₀) ⊓ D₊(X₁) of the standard charts lies in D₊((X₀X₁)ᵏ).
The two polynomial chart ranges cover the projective line.
The infinity section of the projective line, given by the zero point of the chart
D₊(X₁), with homogeneous coordinates [0 : 1].
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The infinity section factors through the zero section of the opposite polynomial chart.
The point at infinity is a section over the base ring.
The boundary of the affine-line chart is precisely the infinity section, over any base ring.
Every point of the infinity section lies outside the affine-line chart.
The point [0 : 1] at infinity on the projective line over a field.
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The affine-line chart misses the point at infinity.
The standard chart D₊(Xᵢ) is an affine open of the projective line.
The projective line over a domain is integral: R[X₀, X₁] is a domain with a nonzero form
of positive degree.
The local rings of the projective line over a regular ring are regular: each is a local
ring of a chart Spec R[X], and R[X] is a regular ring.
Functions on the charts #
The chart D₊(Xᵢ) is an affine open subscheme of the projective line.
The functions on the chart D₊(Xᵢ) are the polynomials in X, the other coordinate over
Xᵢ: restrict along the chart and dehomogenize.
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chartSectionsEquiv restricts a function on the chart D₊(Xᵢ) along the chart and
dehomogenizes it.
The function X on the chart D₊(Xᵢ) restricts along the chart to the other coordinate over
Xᵢ.
On the chart D₊(Xᵢ), the functions on Spec R pulled back along the structure morphism are
the constant polynomials.
The chart D₊(Xᵢ), as the image of awayι, is the basic open set of Xᵢ.
chartSectionsEquiv sends the function Proj.awayToSection a on D₊(Xᵢ) to the
dehomogenization of the fraction a.
On the chart D₊(Xᵢ), the functions on Spec R pulled back along the structure morphism are
the fractions c / 1 of the constants.
On every open of the projective line, the restriction of the constant global function r
takes the value r in every localization.
Smoothness #
The chart ring R[X₀, X₁]_(Xᵢ) is standard smooth of relative dimension one over R: it is
the polynomial ring R[X] (awayEquivPolynomial).
On the chart D₊(Xᵢ), the structure morphism of the projective line is smooth of relative
dimension one.
The projective line is smooth of relative dimension one over Spec R: it is covered by
the two charts D₊(Xᵢ), each of which is the affine line Spec R[X] over Spec R.
Base change #
The projection ℙ¹_S ⟶ ℙ¹_R for an R-algebra S: the coordinates S² of ℙ¹_S are
identified with S ⊗[R] R², and Proj (Sym_S (S ⊗[R] R²)) maps to Proj (Sym_R R²) by extension
of scalars.
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Base change of the projective line: for an R-algebra S, the square formed by the
projection ℙ¹_S ⟶ ℙ¹_R, the structure morphisms, and Spec S ⟶ Spec R is a pullback, that is,
ℙ¹_S = ℙ¹_R ×_{Spec R} Spec S.
The function field #
The function field of the projective line over a domain R is R(X), as an R-algebra:
it is the fraction field of the ring R[X] of functions on the chart D₊(X₀), the function
X₁ / X₀ on that chart going to X (functionFieldEquiv_germToFunctionField).
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On the chart D₊(X₀), the identification of the function field of the projective line with
R(X) is chartSectionsEquiv, that is, dehomogenization at X₀.
The identification of the function field of the projective line with R(X) sends the
function X₁ / X₀, the function on the chart D₊(X₀) restricting to X₁ / X₀
(chartSectionsEquiv_symm_X), to X.