Two schemes are birational when they share a common dense open Z, i.e. there exist open
immersions f : Z ↪ X and g : Z ↪ Y with dense images.
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A scheme is projective if it admits a closed immersion into some Proj 𝒜 for a
finitely-generated graded (𝒜 0)-algebra.
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Every affine scheme admits a projective completion: there is a projective scheme Y and an
open immersion U ↪ Y with dense image.
The graph-closure construction: given a proper morphism f : X → S with integral domain, the
closure of the graph yields a projective scheme X' birational to X. This is the geometric heart
of Chow's lemma.
Chow's lemma helper: for any proper morphism X → S with integral X, there is a projective
scheme X' birational to X.
Birationality is reflexive: every scheme is birational to itself via the identity.
Birationality is symmetric: swap the roles of X and Y in the witnessing common open.