A-schemes and Zariski-Riemann spaces

Abstract

In this paper, we will investigate further properties of A-schemes. The category of A-schemes possesses many properties of the category of coherent schemes, and in addition, it is co-complete and complete. There is the universal compactification, namely, the Zariski-Riemann space in the category of A-schemes. We compare it with the conventional Zariski-Riemann space, and characterize the latter by a left adjoint.

50 pages, revised 2011 Oct. 24