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Does one need to work over an algebraic closed field in ordre to construct GIT quotients à la Mumford? If yes, why?

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Have you looked in Mumford's book? – Angelo Nov 8 at 15:29
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$X = {\rm Proj}\ R$, $X//G := {\rm Proj}\ R^G$ – Allen Knutson Nov 8 at 20:16

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Hey MBeasy,

you can construct the quotients over an arbitrary "not necessarily algebraically closed field", as Mumford states at the beginning of chapter 1.

Greetings

Daniel

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