Prüfer algebraic spaces

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This is the first in a series of two papers concerned with relative birational geometry of algebraic spaces. In this paper, we study Prufer spaces and Prufer pairs of algebraic spaces that generalize spectra of Prufer rings. As a particular case of Prufer spaces we introduce valuation algebraic spaces, and use them to establish valuative criteria of separatedness and properness that sharpen the standard criteria. In a sequel paper, we introduce a version of Riemann–Zariski spaces, and prove Nagata’s compactification theorem for algebraic spaces.