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66.1 Introduction

Please see Spaces, Section 65.1 for a brief introduction to algebraic spaces, and please read some of that chapter for our basic definitions and conventions concerning algebraic spaces. In this chapter we start introducing some basic notions and properties of algebraic spaces. A fundamental reference for the case of quasi-separated algebraic spaces is [Kn].

The discussion is somewhat awkward at times since we made the design decision to first talk about properties of algebraic spaces by themselves, and only later about properties of morphisms of algebraic spaces. We make an exception for this rule regarding étale morphisms of algebraic spaces, which we introduce in Section 66.16. But until that section whenever we say a morphism has a certain property, it automatically means the source of the morphism is a scheme (or perhaps the morphism is representable).

Some of the material in the chapter (especially regarding points) will be improved upon in the chapter on decent algebraic spaces.


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