Rational Points of Schemes
In the parlance of morphisms of schemes, a K-rational point of a scheme X is just a morphism Spec K→X. The set of K-rational points is usually denoted X(K).
If a scheme or variety X is defined over a field k, a point x∈X is also called a rational point if its residue field k(x) is isomorphic to k.
See also: functor of points.
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