Questions tagged [stacks]
In mathematics a stack or 2-sheaf is a sheaf that takes values in categories rather than sets.
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Finite etale atlas for Deligne-Mumford stacks
Let $X$ be a smooth finite type separated connected Deligne-Mumford stack over $\mathbb C$.
Does there exist a finite etale morphism $Y\to X$ with $Y$ a scheme?
What if $X$ is an algebraic space (i....
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Why is there no stack of $\ell$-adic sheaves on a curve?
One of the main players in the categorical geometric langlands correspondence is the moduli stack of rank n integrable connections on a complex curve. The reason for considering such objects is that ...
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Singularities of the moduli stack of Calabi-Yau threefolds
Let $M$ be the moduli of polarized Calabi-Yau threefolds over $\mathbb C$ with fixed Euler characteristic. The coarse moduli space is singular (as usual), but what about the stack?
In many cases I ...
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Gerbes and Stacks
The definition of a gerbe on a smooth manifold that I know is that - after fixing an open cover $U_i$, a gerbe consists of the data of line bundles $L_{ij}$ on two-fold-intersections $U_{ij}$, ...
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Sites which are stacks over themselves
A site C with pullbacks is subcanonical (all representable presheaves are sheaves) if and only if its codomain fibration $Arr(C) \to C$ is a prestack (all hom-presheaves are sheaves). Is there a ...
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$Pic$ of the stack of elliptic curves vs. $Pic$ of the coarse space
There's a natural map $f:\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{1,1}\to \overline{M}_{1,1}\cong \mathbb{P}^1$ from the stack of elliptic curves to the coarse space. Both spaces have $Pic=\mathbb{Z}$ hence $f^*:\...
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stackification commutes with finite limits?
Suppose we work on the Grothendieck site $\mathcal{C}$ of all schemes in the fpqc topology. If it helps it is also fine with me to work only over affine schemes.
Let us denote the category of stacks ...
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Kodaira-Spencer Theory and moduli of curves
I was looking at a paper of Farkas and the following confusing point came up.
Let $\mathscr{M}_g$ be the moduli stack of smooth genus $g$ curves and let $\pi: \mathscr{C} \to \mathscr{M}_g$ be the ...
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Universal homeomorphism of stacks and etale sites
A morphism between schemes is a universal homeomorphism if it is integral, surjective, universally injective. For morphism between algebraic stacks, this notion also make sense.
It is well know that ...
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Stacks for a string theory student
First, I'm a string theory student hoping to grasp some math involved in some physics developments.
I'm hoping to read the famous Kapustin-Witten Paper "Electric-magnetic duality and the ...
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surjective morphism of schemes or epimorphism of sheaves?
I have a technical question coming from reading Toen's master course on stacks.
If we view schemes as locally ringed spaces then there we could define a morphism to be surjective if it the underlying ...
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Double Category of Topological Stacks
There are two equivalent ways of describing topological stacks.
One is the "stacky" definition, that is, a topological stack is a stack $\mathbb{X}$ on $Top$ (a Grothendieck universe thereof, if you'...
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"Approximating" $BGL(1)$ by projective spaces
Given a representation $V$ of a group $G$, we can think of $V$ as a vector bundle over the classifying stack $BG$, and we can define its index $\chi(BG; V)$ to be the dimension of the $G$-invariant ...
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Grothendieck purity for Brauer groups of stacks
Let $X$ be a smooth variety over a field $k$ (for the sake of simplicity of characteristic $0$) and $\operatorname{Br}(X) := H^2_{\text{ét}}(X, \mathbb{G}_m)$ its (cohomological) Brauer group (...
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Geometric stacks, groupoids and étendues
If $(C, \tau)$ is a site with pullbacks and $\tau$ subcanonical, it is well known that these things are essentially equivalent:
Groupoids $s,t: U_1 \to U_0$ where $s,t$ are covering for the $\tau$-...
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Does the category of $G$-equivariant sheaves have enough injectives?
The question is related to this one.
Let $k$ be a field and $X$ be a topological space. We consider Sh$(X)$, the category of sheaves of $k$-vector spaces on $X$.
Let $G$ be a topological group which ...
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Do isomorphisms spread out under suitable assumptions?
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the "pathological" algebraic space $\mathbb{A}^1/\mathbb{Z}$; see Questions about the algebraic space $\mathbb{A}^1/\mathbb{Z}$ and Why is this not an algebraic ...
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derived schemes and perfect obstruction theories
In a survey article of Toen's it is claimed that that there is forgetful $\infty$-functor between the $\infty$-category of derived schemes locally of finite presentation over a field $k$ and the $\...
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How does the machinery of left-exact comonads generalize from sheaves to stacks?
Suppose that we have two Grothendieck sites, their associated sheaves $\mathcal{E}=\rm{Sh}(\bf{C},J)$ and $\mathcal{F}=\rm{Sh}(\bf{D},K)$ and a geometric surjection $f:\mathcal{E}\to\mathcal{F}$. This ...
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Is there any Grothendieck Riemman Roch theorem for general stack ?
It seems that there is no g.r.r for stack yet according to dejong. Does anyone know anything about it? But as you might know, there are some complex manifold which is not scheme having atiyah singer ...
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Relation between $BG$ in topology and in algebraic geometry
This could as well have been asked in the comments to this question, but I prefer to open a new one for the sake of clarity.
Say $G$ is a reductive group over the complex numbers, with compact real ...
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Moduli 'space' of stacks?
In algebraic geometry, we are frequently interested in parametrizing geometric objects. Formally, parametrization of geometric objects having some property can be viewed as a functor $F:Sch\rightarrow ...
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Universal property of X//G?
Given an operation of say a topological group on a topological space, one can form the quotient stack X//G:
the stack associated to the action groupoid.
Does this stack satisfy some kind of universal ...
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Is there a good notion of `Separated Stack'?
A scheme is separated if the diagonal inclusion $X \to X \times X$ is a closed immersion. I what to know if there is a good generalization of `separated' for algebraic stacks?
My usual stack ...
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What is the stalk of a stack?
When we study sheaves of sets (on a space X or a site C) we are often interested in the stalks of the sheaf (at either a point $p:1\to X$ or a left exact, cover-preserving functor $a:C\to Sets$). I ...
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Who first came up with the idea of essential/Morita equivalence of internal groupoids/categories?
The idea that stacks can be identified with groupoids internal to the base site $S$ up to what is variously called essential/Morita equivalence is well known. The basic idea is that one takes the 2-...
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$2$-fiber product is a scheme then map of stacks is representable
Ariyan Javanpeykar said here in comments that,
$X\times_{\mathcal{X}}X$ being a scheme is equivalent to representability of $X\rightarrow \mathcal{X}$.
Context is as in this question.
Suppose $p:...
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Stacks over diffeologies
Konrad Waldorf shows in his paper one may realize a Grothendieck topology on the category of diffeological spaces. Is there any work exploring stacks over the category of diffeologies?
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Fpqc sheafification and localisation
I am slightly confused about sheafification at the moment.
I first learned sheaves defined as a subcategory of presheaves, then I was told that sheaves are also a localisation of presheaves, then I ...
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Stack with affine stabilizers but not quasi-affine diagonal
Give an example of a stack X with affine stabilizer groups and separated but not quasi-affine diagonal.
Remarks:
1) If X has finite stabilizer groups then the diagonal is quasi-finite and separated, ...
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Map between stacks and automorphism groups
I know that the Torelli morphism $t_g:\mathcal{M}_g\rightarrow \mathcal{A}_g$ between the stacks of smooth curves of genus $g$ and principally polarized abelian varieties of dimension $g$ is of order ...
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On the coarse moduli space of a stack
Consider a stack $\mathcal{X}$ over $\mathbb{C}$ as a category fibred in groupoids over the category of schemes. Let $\mathcal{X}^s$ be the $\pi_0$ of this category, i.e. objects of $\mathcal{X}^s$ ...
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To what extent does Poincare duality hold on moduli stacks?
Poincare duality gives us, for a smooth orientable $n$-manifold, an isomorphism $H^k(M) \to H_{n-k}(M)$ given by $\gamma \mapsto \gamma \frown [M]$ where $[M]$ is the fundamental class of the manifold,...
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The Grothendieck plus construction for stacks of n-types
In Jacob Lurie's Higher Topos Theory, Section 6.5.3, he briefly mentions that to stackify a presheaf of $n$-groupoids, one needs to apply the "+"-construction $\left(n+2\right)$ times, and ...
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Stack associated to Lie group and manifold
Given a Lie group $G$, we have a Lie groupoid $(G\rightrightarrows *)$ and stack $BG=B\mathcal{G}$ of principal $G$ bundles.
Given a smooth manifold $M$, we have Lie groupoid $(M\rightrightarrows M)...
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Separation condition for higher Deligne-Mumford stacks
Let $X$ be a stack of $n$-groupoids on the site of affine schemes over a fixed base, with the etale topology. If $n=1$ then for $X$ to be Deligne-Mumford, aside from having an etale atlas from an ...
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When is a stack (NOT) geometric?
Following the terminology of $n$-Lab, a geometric stack $\mathcal{X}$ on a site $\mathcal{(C,J)}$ is a stack for which there exists a representable epimorphism $X \to \mathcal{X}$ from an object $X$ ...
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Does Borel fixed-point theorem hold for Deligne-Mumford stacks?
Let $X$ be a proper Deligne-Mumford stack over $\mathbb{C}$ with an action by a complex torus $T$. Let $X^T$ denote the fixed locus.
Question: Is the following statement true?
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What are the Newton groupoids from Drinfeld's paper on the Grinberg-Kazhdan theorem?
The paper the Grinberg-Kazhdan formal arc theorem and the Newton groupoids by Drinfeld seems to contain many interesting things which are beyond me. For now, I am trying to get some intuition for the ...
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Smooth sub-orbifolds in the language of stacks
In most geometric categories, "monomorphism" is too general to describe useful notions of "embedding". This is the case e.g. for schemes, complex manifolds, and differentiable manifolds.
So "embedding"...
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Understand the difference between two stacks
Let us work over $\mathbb{C}$. Let $G$ be a finite group, acting on $\mathbb{A}^1$ via a character, and let $H$ be the kernel of the action.
Assume that $\mathbb{A}^1$ is the coarse moduli space of ...
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What about stacks of categories in algebraic geometry? II
I've made this a new question, rather than expanding the first one.
Torsten gives a good answer, and it partially illustrates in practice the 'second approach' I outlined in my other question. (You ...
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Twisted curves, admissible covers, and an algebraic analogue of a specific monodromy computation
This problem arose when trying to understand the stack of twisted stable maps into a stack (specifically BG), as introduced by Dan Abramovich, Angelo Vistoli and several co-authors (Olsson, Graber, ...
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Cotangent bundle of a differentiable stack
If you ever wanted to construct the tangent bundle of a differentiable stack, it's relatively simple:
First, if $\mathbf{X}$ is a stack coming from a Lie groupoid $\mathcal{G}$, you could just say $\...
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Is the inertia stack of a Deligne-Mumford stack always finite?
Let X be a DM stack over a field k. We follow the definition in Laumon and Moret-Bailly's book, so that its diagonal is quasi-compact (and hence diagonal is of finite type). Then is the diagonal ...
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Degrees of etale covers of stacks
This is probably pretty basic, but as I said before I'm just beginning my way in the language of stacks.Say you have an etale cover X->Y of stacks (in the etale site). Is there a standard way to ...
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Is a Deligne-Mumford curve defined over Qbar if and only if its coarse moduli space is
Let $\mathcal X$ be a smooth proper finite type Deligne-Mumford stack over $\mathbb C$ that is generically a scheme. Let $X$ be its coarse moduli space.
If $\mathcal X$ can be defined over $\overline{...
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Is every (Artin/DM) algebraic stack fibered in sets an algebraic space?
If $X$ is an algebraic stack fibered in sets (and therefore essentially a sheaf), is it an algebraic space? It seems conceivable that at least when $X$ is Deligne-Mumford, it is actually an algebraic ...
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If $X$ is a smooth and proper stack, does it admit a smooth and proper atlas?
Fix a ground scheme $S$ (a field say).
By atlas for an algebraic stack I mean a smooth and surjective morphism $Y \to X$ from a scheme (or algebraic space or affine scheme) $Y$.
If the stack $X$ is ...
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What is a proper stack?
I have seen the use of the word "proper Deligne-Mumford stack". Now, it is clear to me what it means for a morphism f of stacks to be proper: as usual it should be representable, and every morphism ...