The Yoneda embedding C → [Cᵒᵖ, Type] is fully faithful, the categorical
input behind functor-of-points reasoning in ramification arguments.
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The Yoneda lemma: natural transformations Hom(−, X) → F correspond
bijectively to elements of F(X).
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The principal ramification ideal (disc(A → B)) of A, generated by the
discriminant of a chosen basis of the free finite extension B / A.
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The ramification locus is closed in Spec A, being the zero locus of the
discriminant ideal (Lec 6 variant of Prop 7).
If the discriminant is nonzero, the ramification locus is a proper closed
subset of Spec A.
For a finite separable extension of fields K → L, the discriminant of any
chosen basis is nonzero.
The degree of a dominant morphism of irreducible curves: the dimension of
the function-field extension K(B) / K(A).