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Atlas.AlgebraicGeometryI.code.ProjectiveComplete

Proposition 12 (Lecture 8): Projective space is complete. For a graded ring A = ⨁_n 𝒜_n that is of finite type over its degree-zero piece 𝒜 0, the structure morphism Proj 𝒜 → Spec(𝒜 0) is proper. In particular ℙ^n_k → Spec k is proper, so projective space over a field is complete.