Suppose we have a morphism . Let’s say we are going to blow up
along a coherent sheaf
of ideals,
. We can take the inverse image ideal sheaf
of
in
. Blow up
along
:
. Whence
lifts to a morphism
in the obvious sense.
Furthermore, as a result, the ideal sheaves defining the exceptional divisors are both inverse image ideal sheaves of the , hence they correspond as well according to the lift
, i.e,
pull back the exceptional divisor on
to the exceptional divisor on
.
Such a lift exists uniquely, according to the universal property of the blowing up projection : the inverse image ideal sheaf is invertible.