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What does the cotangent complex tell you when it takes animated inputs?
These two links: What is the cotangent complex good for? and Intuition about the cotangent complex? are quite helpful in giving intution for the cotangent complex in terms of deformations but I don't ...
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Cotangent complex of a formal thickening
Let $R$ be an (animated) commutative ring, with cotangent complex $L_R$ and let $\mathcal{C}(R) = \mathcal{D}(R)_{\Sigma^{-1}L_R/}$ be the category of nice square zero extensions of $R$. A typical ...
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What is the cotangent complex good for?
The cotangent complex seems to be a pretty fundamental object in algebraic geometry, but if it's treated in Hartshorne then I missed it. It seems to be even more important in derived algebraic ...
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When is the cotangent complex perfect?
Let $X\rightarrow S$ be a proper flat morphism of schemes.
When is the cotangent complex $L_{X/S}$ perfect ?
It is well known, that for local complete intersections the cotangent complex is perfect, ...
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A construction of Kähler differentials and Illusie cotangent complex as colimit over embeddings
Let $\Bbbk$ be a field, $X$ affine scheme of finite type over $\Bbbk$. Let $\mathcal C_X$ be the category of closed embeddings of $X$ into (say affine) smooth $Y$'s of finite type over $\Bbbk$, ...