We consider the Fermat cubic
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the ideal
and the element . We claim that for characteristic the element does not belong to the solid closure of . Equivalently, the open subset
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is affine. For this we show that the extended ideal inside the ring of global sections is the unit ideal. First of all we get the equation
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or, equivalently,
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We write this as
which yields on the rational function
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This shows that
belongs to the extended ideal. Similarly, one can show that also the other coefficients belong to the extended ideal. Therefore in characteristic different from , the extended ideal is the unit ideal.