On the closed subschemes of a scheme

Abstract

In this paper, we obtain some new results on closed subschemes. Specially, we define natural addition and multiplication on the closed subschemes of a scheme. It is shown that "the multiplication" precisely coincides with the well known notion of "the scheme-theoretic intersection". Dually, "the addition" coincides with "the scheme-theoretic union". It is also proved that these structures naturally provide contravariant functors from the category of schemes to the category of commutative monoids.