Timeline for The etymologies behind certain topologies on the category of schemes
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| Jun 26, 2022 at 15:52 | comment | added | Will Sawin | In general, your best hope for questions of this type is to look at the paper introducing the term. | |
| Jun 26, 2022 at 15:51 | comment | added | Will Sawin | According to the paper introducing the arc topology, "arc" was chosen by analogy between rank 1 valuations and arcs. I guess they're both segments of curves. | |
| Jun 24, 2022 at 12:34 | comment | added | David Loeffler | The etymology of 'syntomic' is elegant, but not exactly self-explanatory, except to speakers of ancient Greek! | |
| Jun 24, 2022 at 11:43 | comment | added | Donu Arapura | The h-topology was introduced by Voevodsky in 1990s. I suspect "h" stands for homotopy, but I'm not really sure. | |
| Jun 24, 2022 at 10:01 | history | asked | Dat Minh Ha | CC BY-SA 4.0 |