Algebraic Geometry UT Austin, Spring 2016 M390C NOTES: ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY ARUN DEBRAY MAY 5, 2016 These notes were taken in UT Austin’s Math 390c (Algebraic Geometry) class in Spring 2016, taught by David Ben-Zvi. I live-TEXed them using vim, and as such there may be typos; please send questions, comments, complaints, and corrections to
[email protected]. Thanks to Shamil Asgarli, Adrian Clough, Feng Ling, Tom Oldfield, and Souparna Purohit for fixing a few mistakes. Contents 1. The Course Awakens: 1/19/163 2. Attack of the Cones: 1/21/166 3. The Yoneda Chronicles: 1/26/16 10 4. The Yoneda Chronicles, II: 1/28/16 13 5. The Spectrum of a Ring: 2/2/16 16 6. Functoriality of Spec: 2/4/16 20 7. The Zariski Topology: 2/9/16 23 8. Connectedness, Irreducibility, and the Noetherian Condition: 2/11/16 26 9. Revenge of the Sheaf: 2/16/16 29 10. Revenge of the Sheaf, II: 2/18/16 32 11. Locally Ringed Spaces: 2/23/16 34 12. Affine Schemes are Opposite to Rings: 2/25/16 38 13. Examples of Schemes: 3/1/16 40 14. More Examples of Schemes: 3/3/16 44 15. Representation Theory of the Multiplicative Group: 3/8/16 47 16. Projective Schemes and Proj: 3/10/16 50 17. Vector Bundles and Locally Free Sheaves: 3/22/16 52 18. Localization and Quasicoherent Sheaves: 3/24/16 56 19. The Hilbert Scheme of Points: 3/29/16 59 20. Differentials: 3/31/16 62 21.