Elementary introduction to representable functors and Hilbert schemes
Volume 36 / 1996
Banach Center Publications 36 (1996), 179-198
DOI: 10.4064/-36-1-179-198
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to define and prove the existence of the Hilbert scheme. This was originally done by Grothendieck in [4]. A simplified proof was given by Mumford [11], and we will basically follow that proof, with small modifications.
