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[email protected] - www.ictp.trieste.it Construction of Hilbert and Quot Schemes Nitin Nitsure* Lectures at the ICTP Summer School, July 2003 Lecture 1: Definition of Hilbert and Quot functors S^ilbx/s and Decomposition in terms of Hilbert polynomials. Elementary examples: Pg as Quot. Grassmannians. Hypersurfaces in Lecture 2: Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity. Semi-continuity complex. Direct images and base-change. Lecture 3: Generic flatness. Existence theorem for flattening stratification. Lectures 4 and 5: Projectivity. Strong projectivity. Construction of Hilbert and Quot schemes. Lecture 6: Quot schemes in quasi-projective case. Scheme of morphisms. Quotient by flat projective equivalence relation. * School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400 005, India, e-mail:
[email protected] 1 Hilbert and Quot functors Introduction Any scheme X defines a contravariant functor hx (called the functor of points of the scheme X) from the category of schemes to the category of sets, which associates to any scheme T the set Mor(T, X) of all morphisms from T to X. The scheme X can be recovered (upto a unique isomorphism) from hx by the Yoneda lemma.