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Sheaf cohomology and injective resolutions
In defining sheaf cohomology (say in Hartshorne), a common approach seems to be defining the cohomology functors as derived functors. Is there any conceptual reason for injective resolution to come ...
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When are there enough projective sheaves on a space X?
This question is being asked on behalf of a colleague of mine.
Let $X$ be a topological space. It is well known that the abelian category of sheaves on $X$ has enough injectives: that is, every ...
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Heuristic explanation of why we lose projectives in sheaves.
We know that presheaves of any category have enough projectives and that sheaves do not, why is this, and how does it effect our thinking?
This question was asked(and I found it very helpful) but I ...
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Idea of presheaf cohomology vs. sheaf cohomology
Let $X$ be a topological space and $U$ an open cover of $X$.
In this thread Angelo explained beautifully how presheaf cohomology (Cech cohomology) relates to sheaf cohomology:
The zeroth Cech ...
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Counterexamples to gluing complexes of sheaves
Note: I asked the question below last week on MathSE but received no answer.
Background:
I have read the claim that perverse sheaves behave more like sheaves than like complexes of sheaves. This ...
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Understanding the purely formal part of the sheaf theoretic (cohomological) framework for representation theory
By now I have the impression that many statements in representation theory can be phrased a lot more elegantly using cohomological language. Therefore I'm trying to understand a bit better the sheaf ...
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Where can I find a definition of $\underline{H}^p(X, \mathscr{F})$?
Let $X$ be a topological space and $\mathscr{F}$ a sheaf on $X$. In the paper Tropical cycle classes for non-archimedean spaces and weight decomposition of de Rham cohomology sheaves by Yifeng Liu, ...
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Information and intuition packed in the Chern character for coherent sheaves
even after quite some time learning it, I still get somehow puzzled by the Chern character. Let me recall some stuff to get notation and setting.
Let us consider a smooth projective algebraic variety ...
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Question about hypercohomology / spectral sequence of a complex of "almost-acyclic" sheaves
I have a very particular situation involving a (non-exact) complex $K$ of coherent sheaves on a nonsingular projective variety $X$, and I need to compute the hypercohomology of the complex. The ...
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Do we have $\underline{\operatorname{Ext}}^i_\text{fppf}(\mathbb{G}_a,\mathbb{G}_m)=0$ for $i>0$?
Let $k$ be a characteristic zero field and consider the category $(\mathsf{Sch}/k)_\text{fppf}$ of schemes over $k$ with the fppf topology. I know that $\underline{\operatorname{Hom}}(\mathbb{G}_a,\...
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Is the sheaf associated to a differential structure of a specific type?
On a set $X$, let us define a set $\mathcal{D}$ of functions from $X$ to $\mathbb{R}$. Consider first the initial topology $\tau_\mathcal{D}$ on $X$ with respect to $\mathcal{D}$, i.e. the coarsest ...
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About the left adjoint of $f^*$
In lots of different cases (Verdier duality, Grothendieck duality, étale cohomology, ...) the very existence of a (right) adjoint to the sheaf functor $f_!$ gives useful information. (I'm going to ...
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Is there a Čech-like way of computing $H^\bullet(X,M^\bullet)$ or even $\mathsf{R}f_* M^\bullet$?
Let $X$ be a topological space (or a site) and let $M$ be a sheaf on $X$. If $X$ is paracompact, or if $X$ is a noetherian separated scheme and $M$ is quasi-coherent, or if $X$ is quasi-projective ...
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When does derived pullback commute with infinite products?
Let $f:X \to Y$ be a morphism of reasonable schemes (qcqs). Let $f^*: D(Y) \to D(X)$ be the pullback defined on the derived unbounded categories of quasi-coherent sheaves.
Question: When does $f^*$...
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Two basic questions on derived categories
Let $\mathcal{A}, \mathcal{B}$ be two abelian categories with sufficiently many injective objects (in my case these are categories of sheaves of vector spaces on a manifold).
Let $f_*\colon \mathcal{A}...
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Example of pseudocoherent complex which is not locally quasi-isomorphic to a strict pseudocoherent one
I ask this question here even if I posted it also on math.stackexchange (recieving no answer so far) because I have read some analogous question but for perfect complexes on this site, even though ...
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Sheaf-type property for Derived Categories?
Suppose $X$ is a finite dimensional complex space (I'm happy to restrict to $X$ being a scheme of finite type over $\mathbb C$ as well). I'm wondering if the following sheaf-like properties hold for ...
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Reference request: sheaf-theoretic operations in the classical topology?
Like many graduate students before trying to learn something about étale cohomology and Deligne's proof(s) of the Riemann hypothesis part of the Weil conjectures, I am hunting for references detailing ...
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What do we know about a sheaf $M$ if we know its derived fibers $\mathsf{L}x^* M$, for $x\in X(k)$?
Let $X$ be a scheme over a field $k$. (Feel free to assume that $X$ is an algebraic variety, if needed.) Also, let $M^\bullet$ be a complex in the derived category of quasi-coherent sheaves $\mathsf{D}...
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For what kind of sheaves can we always extend a sheaf map from a closed subset to the whole space?
Let $X$ be a topological space. We know that a sheaf on $X$ is call soft if for any closed subset $Z$ of $X$, a section on $Z$ can be always extend to a section on $X$.
Now we consider a similar ...
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K-injective (also known as hoinjective) complexes of sheaves of modules
Let $(X,\mathcal O_X)$ be a ringed space (if necessary, assume that it is a scheme with suitable hypotheses). Given two complexes of sheaves $\mathcal F$ and $\mathcal G$ of $\mathcal O_X$-modules, ...
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Image of Obstruction Map for Relative Quot-scheme
Let $f: X \to S$ be a projective morphisms between finite-type projective schemes, and $\mathcal{O}_{X}(1)$ an $f$-ample line bundle. Given an $S$-flat coherent $\mathcal{O}_{X}$-module $\mathcal{H}$ ...
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What kind of ringed space $X$ has the property that a locally free sheaf is projective in Qcoh$(X)$?
It is well known that for an affine scheme $X$, every finitely generated locally free sheaf $\mathcal{E}$ is projective in the category Qcoh$(X)$. i.e. the functor $\text{Hom}_{\text{Qcoh}(X)}(\...
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details of a dévissage argument for constructible sheaves
I am working on the following Künneth-type isomorphism from [SGA5, exposé III, 2,3]:
$\mathrm{Settings}.$ Let $X_1, X_2$ be separated finite type schemes over the spectrum of a field $S=\mathrm{Spec}...
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Do we have $\underline{\operatorname{Ext}}^i_\text{fppf}(\widehat{\mathbb{G}}_a,\mathbb{G}_m)=0$ for $i>0$?
Let $k$ be a characteristic zero field and consider the category $(\mathsf{Sch}/k)_\text{fppf}$ of schemes over $k$ with the fppf topology. I know that $\underline{\operatorname{Hom}}(\mathbb{G}_a,\...
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On the generalization of a Cech-to-sheaf type spectral sequence
Let $(X,O_{X})$ be a ringed space and $\mathcal{F^{\bullet}}$ be a bounded below complex of $O_{X}$-modules on $(X,O_{X})$. On [Stacks Project 20.25.1][1] it is shown that there is a weakly convergent ...
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How to deduce Künneth from its relative version (in cohomology of sheaves)
Let $p:X\to S$ and $q:Y\to S$ be morphisms of "spaces" over $S$. We have an isomorphism
$$f_!(M\boxtimes N)=p_! M\otimes q_!N$$
in the derived category of "sheaves" over $S$, where ...
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Computing Ext sheaves over complex projective plane
Let $X:=\mathbb{P}^2_K$ with $K$ algebraically closed field. Take $p\in X$ a point and $\mathcal{I}_p$ its ideal sheaf. One can prove (using Serre Duality and the exact sequence defining $\mathcal{I}...
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Action on group $\operatorname{Ext}^i(\mathcal{L}, \mathcal{M})$ by scalar multiplication
Let $X$ be a proper scheme over field $k$ and $\mathcal{L}, \mathcal{M}$ two invertible $\mathcal{O}_X$-modules. Then $Hom_{\mathcal{O}_X}(\mathcal{L}, \mathcal{M}) \cong Hom_{\mathcal{O}_X}(\mathcal{...
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Sheaf Hom and the functor Hom
Let $\varepsilon: 0\to A\to B \to C\to 0$ be an exact sequence of ${\cal O}_X$-modules with $X$ a quasi-compact space. $\varepsilon$ is called pure if the induced sequence
$0\rightarrow Hom(F,A)\...
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A functorial isomorphism in derived category
This question is a direct continuation of Question 1 in this post: Two basic questions on derived categories
Let $f\colon \mathcal{A}\to\mathcal{B}$ be a left exact functor between two abelian ...
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When morphism of complexes is homotopic to 0?
Let $f\colon A^\bullet\to I^\bullet$ be a morphism of bounded below complexes in an abelian category. Assume all $I^i$ are injective objects. Assume also that $f$ induces the zero map on cohomology.
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