# quotient of ind scheme

Is I consider an ind scheme such as $G(k((t)))$ for a reductive connected group over $k=\bar{k}$

I have the conjugacy action of $G(k[[t]])$.

In what category can I make the quotient $[G(k((t))/ad(G(k[[t]])]$?

In the category of presheaves? The category of fppf sheaves?

And if I want to make the fiber product of two such object over $k$, same question.

Moreover, if $f:X\rightarrow Y$ is a morphism of presheaves, i.e. contravariant functors from the category of schemes to sets, is the notion of formall smoothness (by using the infinitesimal lifting property as the definition of formal smoothness) stable under base change?

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It would be better if you give a real definition of the "ind scheme $G(k((t)))$", such as via a specific functor on a specific category of $k$-algebras (and thereby make it clearer if the fppf topology is adequate or perhaps you need the fpqc topology, if you consider $A \otimes_k k[[t]]$ or $A[[t]]$, etc.). As it stands, you are writing down a set of $k$-valued points and nothing more, which is inadequate to do anything rigorously. And to answer your questions (apart from the final one) in a useful way, it would help to know for what purpose you would apply answers. –  user28172 Nov 29 '12 at 2:49
To have a ind-scheme structure on G(k((t))) ,for a k-algebra R , the R-points will be $R$ G(R((t)). –  prochet Nov 29 '12 at 3:38

Hey Doc, the last one's essentially a tautology. Recall that for representable (contravariant) functors base change along $S' \rightarrow S$ (when functor is equipped with a map to a given scheme $S$) corresponds to restriction of the functor to the category of $S'$-schemes within the category of $S$-schemes, so we take the latter as the definition of base change for preheaves (i.e., contravariant functors). For ${\rm{Spec}}(A)$ over $S'$ (so over $S$), $I \subset A$ with $I^2=0$, and $F' = F|_{S'}$, $F'(A) = F(A)$ and same for $A/I$. Thus, trivially base change preserves formal smoothness. –  user29283 Nov 28 '12 at 7:51