Map to localization is injective on spectra

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This article gives the statement, and possibly proof, of a fact about how a property of a homomorphism of commutative unital rings, forces a property for the induced map on spectra
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Statement

Set-theoretic statement

Suppose R is a commutative unital ring, U is a multiplicatively closed subset of R and S=U1R is the localization of R at the multiplicatively closed subset U. Then the induced map on spectra:

Spec(S)Spec(R)

is injective. In fact:

  • The image of this map is those primes P that are disjoint from U
  • The inverse image of a prime ideal P is precisely the prime ideal U1P i.e. the extension of P to S

Topological statement

Further, it is also true that the topology on Spec(S) is such that if we give the subspace topology to its image in Spec(R), the map is a homeomorphism.