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Intuition about the cotangent complex?
Does anyone have an answer to the question "What does the cotangent complex measure?"
Algebraic intuitions (like "homology measures how far a sequence is from being exact") are as welcome as ...
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Intuition behind results in Mumford's “Lectures on curves on an algebraic surface”, II
NOTE: This is a followup to my question here.
These are some questions concerning Mumford's "Lectures on curves on an algebraic surface".
We concern ourselves with questions of the Picard variety $P$...