Chevalley scheme

A Chevalley scheme in algebraic geometry was a precursor notion of scheme theory.

Let X be a separated integral noetherian scheme, R its function field. If we denote by X' the set of subrings $\mathcal O_x$ of R, where x runs through X (when X = Spec(A), we denote X' by L(A)), X' verifies the following three properties

• For each $M\in X'$, R is the field of fractions of M.
• There is a finite set of noetherian subrings A_i of R so that $X'=\cup_i L(A_i)$ and that, for each pair of indices i,j, the subring A_ij of R generated by $A_i \cup A_j$ is an A_i-algebra of finite type.
• If $M\subseteq N$ in X' are such that the maximal ideal of M is contained in that of N, then M=N.

Originally, Chevalley also supposed that R was an extension of finite type of a field K and that the A_i's were algebras of finite type over a field too (this simplifies the second condition above).

Bibliography

• Grothendieck, Alexandre; Jean Dieudonné (1960). "Éléments de géométrie algébrique". Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS. I. Le langage des schémas: I.8.  Online