Total separable closure and contractions

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Abstract: We show that on integral normal separated schemes whose function field is separably closed, for each pair of points the intersection of the resulting local schemes is local. This extends a result of Artin from rings to schemes. The argument relies on the existence of certain modifications in inverse limits. As an application, we show that v{C}ech cohomology coincides with sheaf cohomology for the Nisnevich topology. Along the way, we generalize the characterization of contractible curves on surfaces by negative-definiteness of the intersection matrix to higher dimensions, using bigness of invertible sheaves on non-reduced schemes.



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