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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Good introductory references on algebraic stacks?
Are there any good introductory texts on algebraic stacks?
I have found some readable half-finsished texts on the net, but the authors always seem to give up before they are finished. I have also ...
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What about stacks of categories in algebraic geometry?
Stacks qua moduli spaces were introduced to keep track of nontrivial automorphisms of the objects they parameterize. In essence they are groupoids of objects with some form geometric cohesion. The ...
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Is the Torelli map an immersion?
The Torelli map $\tau\colon M_g \to A_g$ sends a curve C to its Jacobian (along with the canonical principal polarization associated to C); see this question for a description which works for families....
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Motivation for definition of Quotient stack
I am reading "Some notes on Differentiable stacks" by J. Heinloth. In that paper, the notion of quotient stack is defined as follows.
Let $G$ be a Lie group action on a manifold $X$ (left ...
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Diagonal is representable then any morphism is representable
Ariyan Javanpeykar said here in comments that,
If the diagonal is representable, then isn't any morphism $S\rightarrow \mathcal{X}$ with $S$ a scheme representable?
I could not find the statement (...
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Conjectures in Grothendieck's "Pursuing stacks"
I read on the nLab that in "Pursuing stacks" Grothendieck made several interesting conjectures, some of which have been proved since then. For example, as David Roberts wrote in answer to ...
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How is a Stack the generalisation of a sheaf from a 2-category point of view?
A stack is usually given in terms of:
-A category $F$ fibered over another $C$ such that the functor $Hom(x,y), x,y \in F(\alpha), \alpha \in C$ is a sheaf
-The descent data are effective.
There ...
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Pushout schemes/stacks
I would like to know in what generality do we have pushouts for schemes/stacks/derived stacks. More precisely, let $f : X \rightarrow Y$ be a proper flat surjective morphism of schemes of finite type ...
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Understanding the definition of atlas of a stack over the category of manifolds
I am reading https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.4160 to understand orbifolds as stacks.
Definition : Let $D\rightarrow Man$ be a stack over category of manifolds. An atlas for $D$ is a manifold $X$ and a ...
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Fibered product of stacks comes from a Lie groupoid
I am adding some context here. I am reading Introduction to Differentiable Stacks by Gregory Ginot.
In page no $7$, just before the remark $2.2$ he says the following.
One shall be careful that ...
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Phenomena of gerbes
What is your favourite example of Gerbes?
I would like to know Where do we find Gerbes in "nature"?
The examples could vary from String theory to Galois theory. For example my favourite examples of ...
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Categorical construction of the category of schemes?
The answer to the following question is probably well known or the question itself is well known not to have a reasonable answer. In the latter case could you please let me know what the "right" ...
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morphisms representable by algebraic spaces vs morphisms representable by schemes
So I've been working with moduli stacks in algebraic geometry for a while now, with no formal training in the technicalities of the theory of algebraic stacks (ie, I've read a few articles and I learn ...
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What are the occurrences of stacks outside algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and general topology?
What are the occurrences of the notion of a stack outside algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and general topology?
In most of the references, the introduction of the notion of a stack takes ...
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Why do gerbes live in H^2?
Line bundles on a scheme $X$ live in $H^1(X,O_X^*)$, where $O_{X}^{*}$ is the sheaf of invertible functions. If $X$ is noetherian separated, then we can think of this $H^1$ to be Čech cohmology w.r.t....
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Homotopy theory of topological stacks/orbifolds
Motivation $\newcommand{\T}{\mathscr{T}}$
I have many times found myself saying some variant of the following. Let $\T_g$ be the Teichmüller space of a surface of genus $g$, and $\Gamma_g$ its ...
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In what topology DM stacks are stacks
Background/motivation
One of the main reason to introduce (algebraic) stacks is build "fine moduli spaces" for functors which, strictly speaking, are not representable. The yoga is more or less as ...
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Is every algebraic space the quotient of a scheme by a finite group?
In this MO question it is claimed that a catchphrase for "algebraic spaces" could be that they are "the result of looking at the orbit space of the action of a finite group on a scheme".
Hence my ...
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Understanding the definition of the quotient stack $[X/G]$
I'm trying to understand the definition of the quotient stack $[X/G]$ as defined in Frank Neumann's Algebraic Stacks and Moduli of Vector Bundles.
Explicitly, let $G$ be an affine smooth group $S$-...
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Why is lack of functoriality of the Lisse-Etale topology specific to the Lisse-Etale topology?
I'm trying to follow the explanation given in Olsson's "Sheaves on Artin stacks" for the lack of functoriality for lisse-étale topology: Let $f:Y \to X$ be a morphism of algebraic stacks. The functor $...
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Several simple questions on the geometry of higher stacks
I'm trying to understand definition/work out some examples. So, there are some simple questions about higher stacks.
For the simplicity assume that we are working with higher DM (Deligne-Mumford) ...
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Are non-algebraic stacks useful in algebraic geometry?
The title is a bit vague. What I want to know is if there is any geometric application of non-algebraic stacks. I know e.g. the category of coherent sheaves is an example. But I want to ask if people ...
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Why are non-singleton covering families often ignored?
It seems to me that frequently when discussing stack conditions and descent, people consider only singleton covering families, i.e. there is some single covering map $U\to X$, for which one constructs ...
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Exactly how is 'the diagonal is representable' used for algebraic stacks...
...apart from stating properties of $(s,t):X_1 \to X_0\times X_0$ for the a presenting algebraic groupoid $X_1 \rightrightarrows X_0$?
Once we know that given a stack $\mathcal{X}$ we have a smooth ...
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What is the total space of a stack after all?
From my general experience I think for myself of what follows as some kind of taboo question for some reason: in my imagination, everybody wants an answer to this but somehow thinks it shall not be ...
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Classifying stacks and homotopy type of a point
Suppose we are working in a category of schemes over a scheme $S$. The scheme $S$ itself is geometrically a ``point''. Let $G$ be a group scheme that acts on a scheme $X$. The quotient stack $[X/G]$ ...
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Reference for Weighted Projective Stacks
For a sequence of positive integers $a_0, \ldots, a_n$ and a ring $R$, there is a graded ring $R[x_0,\ldots, x_n]$ where $x_i$ is in degree $a_i$. There is a corresponding $\mathbb{G}_m$-action on $...
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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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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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Derived topological stacks?
I apologize for the vagueness of the following.
Informally, in the site of commutative rings, one roughly get the notion of a derived stack by swapping out the commmutative rings with its subcategory ...
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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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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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$2$-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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Formal completion of a quotient stack
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I apologize in advance if this is a naive question but my background in algebraic ...
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The fibre product of two quotient stacks
My question is to know whether the fibre product of $[X/G]$ by $[Y/H]$ over a base scheme is $S$ is $[X \times_S Y/G \times H]$? And if yes, do you have any reference for it?
Thank you.
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Is the category of quasi-coherent sheaves on a concentrated stack locally finitely presentable?
Let's call an Artin stack $X$ concentrated iff it is quasi-compact and quasi-separated (the latter usually being included in the definition of an Artin stack). The category of quasi-coherent sheaves $\...
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Understanding the higher stack of perfect complexes
One of the most famous examples of higher Artin stacks is the stack of perfect complexes. I recall here the basic stuff:
We fix a function $b: \mathbb{Z} \rightarrow
\mathbb{N}$ which is zero ...
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Commutative group algebraic spaces
Is the category of commutative group algebraic spaces (commutative group objects in algebraic spaces) locally of finite type over a field, an abelian category?
I would benefit from a reference
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Is there a Geometric/Smooth version of Homotopy Hypothesis using the path $\infty$-Groupoid of a Smooth Space?
A version of Homotopy Hypothesis says that the Fundamental $n$-grupoids model Homotopy $n$-types... and if we continue upto $\infty$, then the Fundamental $\infty$- groupoids or Kan Complexes model ...
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Question regarding 2-mathematics: Can you stackify a 2-functor without prestackifying it first?
Let $C$ be a site and $CAT$ the 2-category of categories. Given a contravariant 2-functor $A:C\rightarrow CAT$, we can of course consider the associated stack. This is done by first considering the ...
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Intrinsic Characterization of when an orbifold (or more general stack) is effective?
Recall that an orbifold is an etale and proper differentiable stack $X$. Etale means that it admits an etale atlas $M \to X$ from a manifold $M$ (which is to say it is represented by an etale Lie ...
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Algebraic stacks as (étale) groupoid algebraic spaces/schemes
Assume given an algebraic stack(*) $\mathcal{X}$ with presentation $X_0 \to \mathcal{X}$, and the corresponding groupoid $X = (X_0\times_\mathcal{X} X_0 \rightrightarrows X_0)$ in algebraic spaces (or ...
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Is a gerbe over a manifold is a special case of a gerbe over a stack?
There is a notion of Gerbe over a Manifold and a notion of Gerbe over a stack. Given a manifold $M$, there is a way to associate a stack $\underline{M}$ with it and this gives an embedding of ...
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Questions about the algebraic space $\mathbb{A}^1/\mathbb{Z}$
Let $X = \mathbb{A}^1_{\mathbb{C}}/\mathbb{Z}$, where $\mathbb{Z}$ acts on $\mathbb{A}^1$ via translation. [To clarify, $X$ is an \'etale sheaf with a smooth presentation $\mathbb{A}^1_{\mathbb{C}}\to ...
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Do algebraic stacks satisfy fpqc descent?
It is known, thanks to Gabber, that algebraic spaces are sheaves in the fpqc topology:
Stacks project 03W8
Is the analogous statement for algebraic (Artin) stacks true? If not, is it true under ...
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"standard limit arguments" involved in showing that roughly every DM stack is locally a quotient stack
I am trying to understand proposition 3.6 of this paper (perhaps I am in over my head):
https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0703310.pdf
If we denote the stack $\mathcal{M}$ and its coarse moduli space as $M$ ...
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Stacks as local quotients or via atlases
If one looks up the definition of a Deligne--Mumford stack or an Artin stack, one usually finds something like:
A DM (resp. Artin) stack is a stack $X$ satisfying [insert condition in the diagonal ...
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References for constructible sheaves on complex analytic stacks
I'm looking for references on constructible sheaves and the six operation formalism on analytic stacks (stacks fibered over complex analytic spaces). Does anyone have some suggestions?
Basically I ...
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Cohomological description of gerbes over stacks
When understanding about gerbe over a manifold $X$ from Hitchin - Lectures on special Lagrangian submanifolds it is said that
We are basically in gerbe territory (for smooth manifolds) if any one ...
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Stack associated to Groupoid object in category $\text{Sch}/S$
Consider the category of manifolds $\text{Man}$.
A groupoid object in the category of manifolds is called a Lie groupoid, denoted by $\mathcal{G}$. There is a way to associate a stack (over the ...