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I want to make it crystal clear how our new category of preschemes contains our old category of varieties. When this is done, we shall redefine the term variety, and use it to mean instead the corresponding prescheme (or more precisely, prescheme/k).
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Mumford, D. (1988). Varieties are preschemes. In: The Red Book of Varieties and Schemes. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1358. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-21581-4_13
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