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How should one think about sheafification and the difference between a sheaf and a presheaf
The first time I got in touch with the abstract notion of a sheaf on a topological space $X$, I thought of it as something which assigns to an open set $U$ of $X$ something like the ring of continuous ...
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What's the easiest example of a morphism of topoi that is not from that of a site?
A topos is defined to be a category that's equivalent to the category of sheaves on a site. Morphisms between topoi is defined by a pair of adjoint functors that behave like pull-back/push-forward of ...
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Properties of the petit Zariski topos
What are some (intrinsically formulated) properties of the locally ringed topos $(\mathbf{Sh}(X),\mathcal{O}_X)$ for some scheme $X$, which do not hold for arbitrary locally ringed toposes?
Is there, ...
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How are the left and the right group of a bitorsor related?
This question arose from my answer to To what extent does a torsor determine a group: it turns out that I do not know one thing about it.
Let $G$, $G'$ be groups in some nice enough category (you may ...