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I have a question about a step in the proof from Lang's "Abelian Varieties" (page 20):

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By definition an abelian variety $A$ over field $k$ is a proper smooth $k$-group scheme that is irreducible.

In the Theorem 1 where we have to show that an abelian variety is commutative the author says in the red tagged line that it suffice to show that

$$\dim T \le \dim A$$

where $T$ is the locus if $(x, yxy^{-1}) \in A \times A$.

Following step isn't clear:

Why completeness of $A$ implies that the point $(e,a) \in T \cap (e \times A)$ has a preimage $(e,b)$ in $A \times A$ under the map $(x,y) \mapsto (x, yxy^{-1})$?

I'm working with wiki's definition of completeness.

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