My question arises from the comment of this post Projective subschemes and their coordinate rings:
"For your first question, it is not true that $\mathrm{Proj} S$ integral implies $S$ is a domain. For example, consider any domain $S$, and $T=S[x]/(x^2)$, where $x$ has degree $1$. Then, $\mathrm{Proj} S\cong \mathrm{Proj}T$ by Exercise II.5.13, but $T$ is not a domain"
Which leads me to some questions:
- Is the graded structure of $S$ simply just $S_0=S$ and $0$ else?
- Why is $\mathrm{Proj}T$ not empty? Any homogeneous ideal $I$ not containing $x$ will not be prime, because of $x\cdot x=0\in I$, but $x\notin I$. Thus every prime ideal contains $(x)=T_1=T_+$. Here I am assuming that $T$ has the graded structure $T_0=S$, $T_1=<x>$ and $0$ else.
- Is there an other example of an integral scheme $\mathrm{Proj}T$ with $T$ not being a domain (or another way to create an example)?
EDIT:
I am getting a bit stuck, as I am trying to apply the exercise, which states that $\mathrm{Proj} S\cong \mathrm{Proj} S^{(d)} $, if $ S^{(d)}=\oplus_{n \ge 0}S^{(d)}_n$, where $S^{(d)}_n=S_{nd}$.
I tried to calculate it with the polynomial ring $S=k[y]$, but this lead me to $T=k[y][x]/(x^2)$ and I don't see how $T\cong S^{(d)}$ (if this doesn't hold, I don't see how I would apply the exercise).