An integral morphism is a morphism of schemes such that, for
every affine scheme
open in
, its inverse image
is an affine scheme
and every element
of
satisfies a monic polynomial with coefficients
in the image of the induced ring
homomorphism
(Stacks Project n.d., Tag 01WG). Thus the induced ring
homomorphism is integral, although it need not be injective.
It is enough to check this condition on an affine open
cover of
.
For example, for a field , the morphism
is integral. Each element
of the ring of dual
numbers satisfies the monic polynomial
with coefficients
in
.