Irreducibility of connected schemes with domain stalks #
This file supplies a prerequisite for the Standing hypotheses target of the Jacobian challenge roadmap (proving that a regular connected scheme is irreducible, as regular stalks are integral domains).
We prove that a locally noetherian connected scheme whose stalks have unique
minimal primes is irreducible (irreducibleSpace_of_connected_of_unique_minimalPrime_stalk),
from which we deduce that such a scheme is irreducible if its stalks are
integral domains (irreducibleSpace_of_connected_of_isDomain_stalk).
The proof proceeds by showing that the irreducible components of such a scheme are pairwise disjoint and open (hence clopen), so connectedness forces a unique component.
Along the way we show that the minimal primes of the stalk at a point and the irreducible components containing that point are in bijection.
A locally noetherian connected scheme whose stalks have unique minimal primes is irreducible.
A locally noetherian connected scheme whose stalks are integral domains is irreducible.