This is a glossary of algebraic geometry.
See also glossary of commutative algebra, glossary of classical algebraic geometry, and glossary of ring theory. For the number-theoretic applications, see glossary of arithmetic and Diophantine geometry.
For simplicity, a reference to the base scheme is often omitted; i.e., a scheme will be a scheme over some fixed base scheme S and a morphism an S-morphism.
holds for any coherent sheaf F on X; for example, if X is a smooth projective variety, then it is a canonical sheaf.
The EGA was an incomplete attempt to lay a foundation of algebraic geometry based on the notion of scheme, a generalization of an algebraic variety. Séminaire de géométrie algébrique picks up where the EGA left off. Today it is one of the standard references in algebraic geometry.
Étale morphisms form a very important class of morphisms; they are used to build the so-called étale topology and consequently the étale cohomology, which is nowadays one of the cornerstones of algebraic geometry.
where Pn is the projective space over a field and the last nonzero term is the tangent sheaf, is called the Euler sequence.
A scheme is a locally ringed space that is locally a prime spectrum of a commutative ring.