nLab semiseparated scheme

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Definition

An algebraic scheme is semiseparated if it has a basis of topology by affine open subsets which is closed under finite intersections. Equivalently, the diagonal morphism is affine.

A cover {U i} iI\{U_i\}_{i\in I} of a scheme by affine open subsets is semiseparated (also spelled semi-separated, some say semiseparating or semi-separating) if U iU jU_i\cap U_j is also affine for every pair (i,j)I×I(i,j)\in I\times I.

A scheme is semiseparated iff it has an affine cover which is semiseparated.

Properties

An open subset of a semiseparated scheme is semiseparated.

Every semiseparated scheme is quasiseparated.

Literature

  • R. W. Thomason, T. Trobaugh: Higher algebraic K-theory of schemes and of derived categories, in: The

    Grothendieck Festschrift* III, in: Progr. Math. 88, Birkhäuser (1990) 247–-435

  • L. Alonso Tarrío, A. Jeremías López, M. Pérez Rodríguez, María J. Vale Gonsalves; section 2 of: The derived category of quasi-coherent sheaves and axiomatic stable homotopy, Adv. Math. 218 4 (2008) 1224–-1252

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