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Rational Points of Schemes

In the parlance of morphisms of schemes, a K-rational point of a scheme X is just a morphism Spec KX. 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 xX 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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