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Geometric point

Geometric point

Extracted from the Wikipedia article Glossary of algebraic geometry.

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  1. a point of the underlying topological space;
  2. a -valued point of is a morphism from to , for any scheme ;
  3. a geometric point, where is defined over (is equipped with a morphism to) , where is a field, is a morphism from to where is an algebraic closure of .