27.11 Functoriality of Proj
A graded ring map \psi : A \to B does not always give rise to a morphism of associated projective homogeneous spectra. The reason is that the inverse image \psi ^{-1}(\mathfrak q) of a homogeneous prime \mathfrak q \subset B may contain the irrelevant prime A_{+} even if \mathfrak q does not contain B_{+}. The correct result is stated as follows.
Lemma 27.11.1. Let A, B be two graded rings. Set X = \text{Proj}(A) and Y = \text{Proj}(B). Let \psi : A \to B be a graded ring map. Set
U(\psi ) = \bigcup \nolimits _{f \in A_{+}\ \text{homogeneous}} D_{+}(\psi (f)) \subset Y.
Then there is a canonical morphism of schemes
r_\psi : U(\psi ) \longrightarrow X
and a map of \mathbf{Z}-graded \mathcal{O}_{U(\psi )}-algebras
\theta = \theta _\psi : r_\psi ^*\left( \bigoplus \nolimits _{d \in \mathbf{Z}} \mathcal{O}_ X(d) \right) \longrightarrow \bigoplus \nolimits _{d \in \mathbf{Z}} \mathcal{O}_{U(\psi )}(d).
The triple (U(\psi ), r_\psi , \theta ) is characterized by the following properties:
For every d \geq 0 the diagram
\xymatrix{ A_ d \ar[d] \ar[rr]_{\psi } & & B_ d \ar[d] \\ \Gamma (X, \mathcal{O}_ X(d)) \ar[r]^-\theta & \Gamma (U(\psi ), \mathcal{O}_ Y(d)) & \Gamma (Y, \mathcal{O}_ Y(d)) \ar[l] }
is commutative.
For any f \in A_{+} homogeneous we have r_\psi ^{-1}(D_{+}(f)) = D_{+}(\psi (f)) and the restriction of r_\psi to D_{+}(\psi (f)) corresponds to the ring map A_{(f)} \to B_{(\psi (f))} induced by \psi .
Proof.
Clearly condition (2) uniquely determines the morphism of schemes and the open subset U(\psi ). Pick f \in A_ d with d \geq 1. Note that \mathcal{O}_ X(n)|_{D_{+}(f)} corresponds to the A_{(f)}-module (A_ f)_ n and that \mathcal{O}_ Y(n)|_{D_{+}(\psi (f))} corresponds to the B_{(\psi (f))}-module (B_{\psi (f)})_ n. In other words \theta when restricted to D_{+}(\psi (f)) corresponds to a map of \mathbf{Z}-graded B_{(\psi (f))}-algebras
A_ f \otimes _{A_{(f)}} B_{(\psi (f))} \longrightarrow B_{\psi (f)}
Condition (1) determines the images of all elements of A. Since f is an invertible element which is mapped to \psi (f) we see that 1/f^ m is mapped to 1/\psi (f)^ m. It easily follows from this that \theta is uniquely determined, namely it is given by the rule
a/f^ m \otimes b/\psi (f)^ e \longmapsto \psi (a)b/\psi (f)^{m + e}.
To show existence we remark that the proof of uniqueness above gave a well defined prescription for the morphism r and the map \theta when restricted to every standard open of the form D_{+}(\psi (f)) \subset U(\psi ) into D_{+}(f). Call these r_ f and \theta _ f. Hence we only need to verify that if D_{+}(f) \subset D_{+}(g) for some f, g \in A_{+} homogeneous, then the restriction of r_ g to D_{+}(\psi (f)) matches r_ f. This is clear from the formulas given for r and \theta above.
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Lemma 27.11.2. Let A, B, and C be graded rings. Set X = \text{Proj}(A), Y = \text{Proj}(B) and Z = \text{Proj}(C). Let \varphi : A \to B, \psi : B \to C be graded ring maps. Then we have
U(\psi \circ \varphi ) = r_\psi ^{-1}(U(\varphi )) \quad \text{and} \quad r_{\psi \circ \varphi } = r_\varphi \circ r_\psi |_{U(\psi \circ \varphi )}.
In addition we have
\theta _\psi \circ r_\psi ^*\theta _\varphi = \theta _{\psi \circ \varphi }
with obvious notation.
Proof.
Omitted.
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Lemma 27.11.3. With hypotheses and notation as in Lemma 27.11.1 above. Assume A_ d \to B_ d is surjective for all d \gg 0. Then
U(\psi ) = Y,
r_\psi : Y \to X is a closed immersion, and
the maps \theta : r_\psi ^*\mathcal{O}_ X(n) \to \mathcal{O}_ Y(n) are surjective but not isomorphisms in general (even if A \to B is surjective).
Proof.
Part (1) follows from the definition of U(\psi ) and the fact that D_{+}(f) = D_{+}(f^ n) for any n > 0. For f \in A_{+} homogeneous we see that A_{(f)} \to B_{(\psi (f))} is surjective because any element of B_{(\psi (f))} can be represented by a fraction b/\psi (f)^ n with n arbitrarily large (which forces the degree of b \in B to be large). This proves (2). The same argument shows the map
A_ f \to B_{\psi (f)}
is surjective which proves the surjectivity of \theta . For an example where this map is not an isomorphism consider the graded ring A = k[x, y] where k is a field and \deg (x) = 1, \deg (y) = 2. Set I = (x), so that B = k[y]. Note that \mathcal{O}_ Y(1) = 0 in this case. But it is easy to see that r_\psi ^*\mathcal{O}_ X(1) is not zero. (There are less silly examples.)
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Lemma 27.11.4. With hypotheses and notation as in Lemma 27.11.1 above. Assume A_ d \to B_ d is an isomorphism for all d \gg 0. Then
U(\psi ) = Y,
r_\psi : Y \to X is an isomorphism, and
the maps \theta : r_\psi ^*\mathcal{O}_ X(n) \to \mathcal{O}_ Y(n) are isomorphisms.
Proof.
We have (1) by Lemma 27.11.3. Let f \in A_{+} be homogeneous. The assumption on \psi implies that A_ f \to B_ f is an isomorphism (details omitted). Thus it is clear that r_\psi and \theta restrict to isomorphisms over D_{+}(f). The lemma follows.
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Lemma 27.11.5. With hypotheses and notation as in Lemma 27.11.1 above. Assume A_ d \to B_ d is surjective for d \gg 0 and that A is generated by A_1 over A_0. Then
U(\psi ) = Y,
r_\psi : Y \to X is a closed immersion, and
the maps \theta : r_\psi ^*\mathcal{O}_ X(n) \to \mathcal{O}_ Y(n) are isomorphisms.
Proof.
By Lemmas 27.11.4 and 27.11.2 we may replace B by the image of A \to B without changing X or the sheaves \mathcal{O}_ X(n). Thus we may assume that A \to B is surjective. By Lemma 27.11.3 we get (1) and (2) and surjectivity in (3). By Lemma 27.10.3 we see that both \mathcal{O}_ X(n) and \mathcal{O}_ Y(n) are invertible. Hence \theta is an isomorphism.
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Lemma 27.11.6. With hypotheses and notation as in Lemma 27.11.1 above. Assume there exists a ring map R \to A_0 and a ring map R \to R' such that B = R' \otimes _ R A. Then
U(\psi ) = Y,
the diagram
\xymatrix{ Y = \text{Proj}(B) \ar[r]_{r_\psi } \ar[d] & \text{Proj}(A) = X \ar[d] \\ \mathop{\mathrm{Spec}}(R') \ar[r] & \mathop{\mathrm{Spec}}(R) }
is a fibre product square, and
the maps \theta : r_\psi ^*\mathcal{O}_ X(n) \to \mathcal{O}_ Y(n) are isomorphisms.
Proof.
This follows immediately by looking at what happens over the standard opens D_{+}(f) for f \in A_{+}.
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Lemma 27.11.7. With hypotheses and notation as in Lemma 27.11.1 above. Assume there exists a g \in A_0 such that \psi induces an isomorphism A_ g \to B. Then U(\psi ) = Y, r_\psi : Y \to X is an open immersion which induces an isomorphism of Y with the inverse image of D(g) \subset \mathop{\mathrm{Spec}}(A_0). Moreover the map \theta is an isomorphism.
Proof.
This is a special case of Lemma 27.11.6 above.
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Lemma 27.11.8. Let S be a graded ring. Let d \geq 1. Set S' = S^{(d)} with notation as in Algebra, Section 10.56. Set X = \text{Proj}(S) and X' = \text{Proj}(S'). There is a canonical isomorphism i : X \to X' of schemes such that
for any graded S-module M setting M' = M^{(d)}, we have a canonical isomorphism \widetilde{M} \to i^*\widetilde{M'},
we have canonical isomorphisms \mathcal{O}_{X}(nd) \to i^*\mathcal{O}_{X'}(n)
and these isomorphisms are compatible with the multiplication maps of Lemma 27.9.1 and hence with the maps (27.10.1.1), (27.10.1.2), (27.10.1.3), (27.10.1.4), (27.10.1.5), and (27.10.1.6) (see proof for precise statements.
Proof.
The injective ring map S' \to S (which is not a homomorphism of graded rings due to our conventions), induces a map j : \mathop{\mathrm{Spec}}(S) \to \mathop{\mathrm{Spec}}(S'). Given a graded prime ideal \mathfrak p \subset S we see that \mathfrak p' = j(\mathfrak p) = S' \cap \mathfrak p is a graded prime ideal of S'. Moreover, if f \in S_+ is homogeneous and f \not\in \mathfrak p, then f^ d \in S'_+ and f^ d \not\in \mathfrak p'. Conversely, if \mathfrak p' \subset S' is a graded prime ideal not containing some homogeneous element f \in S'_+, then \mathfrak p = \{ g \in S \mid g^ d \in \mathfrak p'\} is a graded prime ideal of S not containing f whose image under j is \mathfrak p'. To see that \mathfrak p is an ideal, note that if g, h \in \mathfrak p, then (g + h)^{2d} \in \mathfrak p' by the binomial formula and hence g + h \in \mathfrak p' as \mathfrak p' is a prime. In this way we see that j induces a homeomorphism i : X \to X'. Moreover, given f \in S_+ homogeneous, then we have S_{(f)} \cong S'_{(f^ d)}. Since these isomorphisms are compatible with the restrictions mappings of Lemma 27.8.1, we see that there exists an isomorphism i^\sharp : i^{-1}\mathcal{O}_{X'} \to \mathcal{O}_ X of structure sheaves on X and X', hence i is an isomorphism of schemes.
Let M be a graded S-module. Given f \in S_+ homogeneous, we have M_{(f)} \cong M'_{(f^ d)}, hence in exactly the same manner as above we obtain the isomorphism in (1). The isomorphisms in (2) are a special case of (1) for M = S(nd) which gives M' = S'(n). Let M and N be graded S-modules. Then we have
M' \otimes _{S'} N' = (M \otimes _ S N)^{(d)} = (M \otimes _ S N)'
as can be verified directly from the definitions. Having said this the compatibility with the multiplication maps of Lemma 27.9.1 is the commutativity of the diagram
\xymatrix{ \widetilde M \otimes _{\mathcal{O}_ X} \widetilde N \ar[d]_{(1) \otimes (1)} \ar[r] & \widetilde{M \otimes _ S N} \ar[d]^{(1)} \\ i^*(\widetilde{M'} \otimes _{\mathcal{O}_{X'}} \widetilde{N'}) \ar[r] & i^*(\widetilde{M' \otimes _{S'} N'}) }
This can be seen by looking at the construction of the maps over the open D_+(f) = D_+(f^ d) where the top horizontal arrow is given by the map M_{(f)} \times N_{(f)} \to (M \otimes _ S N)_{(f)} and the lower horizontal arrow by the map M'_{(f^ d)} \times N'_{(f^ d)} \to (M' \otimes _{S'} N')_{(f^ d)}. Since these maps agree via the identifications M_{(f)} = M'_{(f^ d)}, etc, we get the desired compatibility. We omit the proof of the other compatibilities.
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