The Stacks project

Lemma 61.12.2. Let $T$ be a scheme. Let $\{ f_ i : T_ i \to T\} _{i \in I}$ be a family of morphisms of schemes with target $T$. The following are equivalent

1. $\{ f_ i : T_ i \to T\} _{i \in I}$ is a pro-étale covering,

2. each $f_ i$ is weakly étale and $\{ f_ i : T_ i \to T\} _{i \in I}$ is an fpqc covering,

3. each $f_ i$ is weakly étale and for every affine open $U \subset T$ there exist quasi-compact opens $U_ i \subset T_ i$ which are almost all empty, such that $U = \bigcup f_ i(U_ i)$,

4. each $f_ i$ is weakly étale and there exists an affine open covering $T = \bigcup _{\alpha \in A} U_\alpha$ and for each $\alpha \in A$ there exist $i_{\alpha , 1}, \ldots , i_{\alpha , n(\alpha )} \in I$ and quasi-compact opens $U_{\alpha , j} \subset T_{i_{\alpha , j}}$ such that $U_\alpha = \bigcup _{j = 1, \ldots , n(\alpha )} f_{i_{\alpha , j}}(U_{\alpha , j})$.

If $T$ is quasi-separated, these are also equivalent to

1. each $f_ i$ is weakly étale, and for every $t \in T$ there exist $i_1, \ldots , i_ n \in I$ and quasi-compact opens $U_ j \subset T_{i_ j}$ such that $\bigcup _{j = 1, \ldots , n} f_{i_ j}(U_ j)$ is a (not necessarily open) neighbourhood of $t$ in $T$.