Affine scheme which is connected but not irreducible and not reduced.

453 Views Asked by At

Are there any examples of affine schemes which is connected but not irreducible and not reduced?. Reducedness and irredubility doesn't deduces connectedness, so I think there should be examples, but I cannot give specific examples... Thank you for your help!

1

There are 1 best solutions below

0
On BEST ANSWER

You want a ring which has no nontrivial idempotents, has more than one minimal prime ideal and has some nilpotents.

First, connected but not irreducible: we can take $\mathbb Z[X]/(2X)$. It has no nontrivial idempotents, and it has the minimal prime ideals $(2)$ and $(X)$.

To make it not-reduced, we can change it to for example $\mathbb Z[X]/(4X)$, or $\mathbb Z[X,Y]/(2X,Y^2)$.