The Spec functor#

AUTHORS:

  • William Stein (2006): initial implementation

  • Peter Bruin (2014): rewrite Spec as a functor

sage.schemes.generic.spec.Spec(R, S=None)#

Apply the Spec functor to \(R\).

INPUT:

  • R – either a commutative ring or a ring homomorphism

  • S – a commutative ring (optional), the base ring

OUTPUT:

  • AffineScheme – the affine scheme \(\mathrm{Spec}(R)\)

EXAMPLES:

sage: Spec(QQ)
Spectrum of Rational Field
sage: Spec(PolynomialRing(QQ, 'x'))
Spectrum of Univariate Polynomial Ring in x over Rational Field
sage: Spec(PolynomialRing(QQ, 'x', 3))
Spectrum of Multivariate Polynomial Ring in x0, x1, x2 over Rational Field
sage: X = Spec(PolynomialRing(GF(49,'a'), 3, 'x')); X                           # optional - sage.rings.finite_rings
Spectrum of Multivariate Polynomial Ring in x0, x1, x2
 over Finite Field in a of size 7^2
sage: TestSuite(X).run()                                                        # optional - sage.rings.finite_rings

Applying Spec twice to the same ring gives identical output (see github issue #17008):

sage: A = Spec(ZZ); B = Spec(ZZ)
sage: A is B
True

A TypeError is raised if the input is not a commutative ring:

sage: Spec(5)
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
TypeError: x (=5) is not in Category of commutative rings
sage: Spec(FreeAlgebra(QQ, 2, 'x'))
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
TypeError: x (=Free Algebra on 2 generators (x0, x1) over Rational Field)
is not in Category of commutative rings
class sage.schemes.generic.spec.SpecFunctor(base_ring=None)#

Bases: Functor, UniqueRepresentation

The Spec functor.