I'm currently reading this proof in the stacks project showing the existence of absolutely integral closure. Here, we consider the set $I$ of all monic polynomials with coefficients in $A$ (so an element of $I$ is in $A[x]$). Then we construct a new ring $A[x_i;i \in I]/(P_i;i \in I)$, where $P_i$ is the corresponding polynomial in the variable $x_i$. The part I cannot understand is that the canoniacal map $A \to A[x_i;i \in I]/(P_i;i \in I)$ is an embedding. This is equivalent to saying that $A \cap (P_i;i \in I) = 0$, but how can we rigorously show that any linear combination of these polynomials does not magically cancel each other and only leave the constant term?
2026-02-23 09:49:25.1771840165
Understanding the proof of the existence of absolute integral closure
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