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Proposition 4.3.8 Qing Liu about flat morphisms of schemes

I have a problem with a detail of Qing Liu's proof of Proposition 4.3.8 (pag. 137 of "Algebraic Geometry and Arithmetic Curves"). The statement is: Let $Y$ be a scheme having only a finite ...
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Why did Ravenel define a ring spectrum to be flat if its smash-square splits into copies of itself?

In appendix A.2 of the orange book, Ravenel defines a ring spectrum $E$ to be flat if $E\wedge E$ is equivalent to a coproduct of suspensions of $E$. (Call this definition (1).) I've seen this ...
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Is there a notion of "flat vector bundle over a topological space"?

I am reading this paper and at the top of page 5 the author makes reference to categories consisting of flat complex vector bundles over $X$ where $X$ is an arbitrary topological space. However, the ...
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Flatness in Algebraic Geometry vs. Fibration in Topology

I am currently trying to get my head around flatness in algebraic geometry. In particular, I'm trying to relate the notion of flatness in algebraic geometry to the notion of fibration in algebraic ...
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