Radicial morphism
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In algebraic geometry, a morphism of schemes
f:X → Y
is called radicial or universally injective, if, for every field K, the induced map X(K)→Y(K) is injective (EGA I (1960), (3.5.4)), (EGA I (1971), (3.7.2)). This is a generalization of the notion of a purely inseparable extension of fields (sometimes called a radicial extension, which should not be confused with a radical extension).
It suffices to check this for K algebraically closed.
This is equivalent to the following condition: f is injective on the topological spaces and for every point x in X, the extension of the residue fields
k(f(x)) ⊂ k(x)
is radicial, i.e. purely inseparable.
It is also equivalent to every base change of f being injective on the underlying topological spaces. (Thus the term universally injective.)
Radicial morphisms are stable under composition, products and base change. If gf is radicial, so is f.
- Grothendieck, Alexandre; Dieudonné, Jean (1960), , Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS, 4 (1): 5–228, doi:, ISSN, archived from on 2016-03-06, section I.3.5.
- Grothendieck, Alexandre; Dieudonné, Jean (1971), Eléments de géométrie algébrique, Die Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, Berlin New York: Springer, ISBN978-3-540-05113-8, section I.3.7
- Bourbaki, Nicolas (1988), Algebra, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN978-3-540-19373-9, see section V.5.