Local rings of standard-smooth relative curves #
A standard-smooth algebra of relative dimension one is étale over a one-variable polynomial ring. After localizing at a prime, formal unramifiedness identifies the target maximal ideal with the image of the source maximal ideal. The source is a localization of a principal ideal domain, so the target maximal ideal is principal. The Noetherian-local-domain characterization of valuation rings then applies.
This gives the local commutative-algebra input needed to extend rational functions on a smooth curve to projective-line-valued morphisms.
A local ring of a standard-smooth relative curve over a field is a valuation ring.
Any chosen localization at a prime of a standard-smooth relative curve over a field is a valuation ring. This form applies directly to scheme stalks.