The Stacks project

Situation 36.9.1. Here $A$ is a ring and $f_1, \ldots , f_ r$ is a sequence of elements of $A$. We set $X = \mathop{\mathrm{Spec}}(A)$ and $U = D(f_1) \cup \ldots \cup D(f_ r) \subset X$. We denote $\mathcal{U} : U = \bigcup _{i = 1, \ldots , r} D(f_ i)$ the given open covering of $U$.