Blow-up of morphisms

By dunghoangnguyen

Suppose we have a morphism f :X \to Y. Let’s say we are going to blow up Y along a coherent sheaf I of ideals, \pi_Y : Y' \to Y. We can take the inverse image ideal sheaf J of I in X . Blow up X along J : \pi_X : X' \to X. Whence f lifts to a morphism f' : X \to Y in the obvious sense.
Furthermore, as a result, the ideal sheaves defining the exceptional divisors are both inverse image ideal sheaves of the I , hence they correspond as well according to the lift f', i.e, f'^* pull back the exceptional divisor on Y' to the exceptional divisor on X'.

Such a lift exists uniquely, according to the universal property of the blowing up projection : the inverse image ideal sheaf is invertible.

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