Lemma of the day

Let A be a Grothendieck abelian category. Then

  1. D(A) has both direct sums and products,
  2. direct sums are obtained by taking termwise direct sums of any complexes,
  3. products are obtained by taking termwise products of K-injective complexes.

See Tag 07D9.

Lemma of the day

Let A —> B be a ring map. Assume

  1. A ⊂ B is an extension of domains,
  2. A is Noetherian,
  3. A —> B is of finite type, and
  4. the extension f.f.(A) ⊂ f.f.(B) is finite.

Let p ⊂ A be a prime such that dim(Ap) = 1. Then there are at most finitely many primes of B lying over p. See Tag 02MA.

Lemma of the day

Let R —> S be a ring map. Let p ⊂ R be a prime. Assume that

  1. there exists a unique prime q ⊂ S lying over p, and
  2. either
    1. going up holds for R —> S, or
    2. going down holds for R —> S and there is at most one prime of S above every prime of R.

Then Sp=Sq. See Tag 00EA.

Proposition of the day

Let X be a quasi-compact and separated algebraic space. Let U be an affine scheme, and let f : U —> X be a surjective étale morphism. Let d be an upper bound for the size of the fibres of |U| —> |X|. Then for any quasi-coherent OX-module F we have Hq(X,F)=0 for q ≥ d. See Tag 072B.

Note: This is interesting even when X is a scheme.

Lemma of the day

Let X be a quasi-separated algebraic space. Let E be an object of DQCoh(OX). Let a ≤ b. The following are equivalent

  1. E has tor amplitude in [a,b], and
  2. for all F in QCoh(OX) we have Hi(E ⊗L F)=0 for i not in [a,b].

See Tag 08IL.

Proposition of the day

Let X be a scheme. Let a : X —> Spec(k1) and b : X —> Spec(k2) be morphisms from X to spectra of fields. Assume a,b are locally of finite type, and X is reduced, and connected. Then we have k′1 = k′2, where k′i ⊂ Γ(X,OX) is the integral closure of ki in Γ(X,OX). See Tag 04MK.