Questions tagged [localization]
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Is primary decomposition still important?
On p.50 of Atiyah and Macdonald's Introduction to Commutative Algebra, in the introduction to the chapter on primary decomposition, it says
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What is an infinite prime in algebraic topology?
The links between algebraic topology (stable homotopy theory in particular) and number theory are nowadays abundant and fruitful. In one direction, there is chromatic homotopy theory, exploiting the ...
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Reasons to believe Vopenka's principle/huge cardinals are consistent
There are a number of informal heuristic arguments for the consistency of ZFC, enough that I am happy enough to believe that ZFC is consistent. This is true for even some of the more tame large ...
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Is a filtered colimit of rational spaces again rational?
Let me first explain the statement of the question and then give some indication why the answer might be 'yes'.
By a space I mean, say, a simplicial set and by rational I mean rational in the sense of ...
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Why localize spaces with respect to homology?
A basic construction in algebraic topology is the localization of spaces or spectra with respect to a homology theory: one formally inverts the $E$-homology isomorphisms, reflecting each space into ...
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What is the correct definition of localisation of a category?
Disclaimer: I wasn't sure if this was an appropriate question for MathOverflow, and so I've also asked this on StackExchange.
There appears to be a discrepancy in the literature regarding the ...
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When does rationalization commute with homotopy fixed points?
Let $X$ be a $G$-space. There are a number of places in the literature where one can find the claim that under certain conditions rationalization and taking homotopy fixed points with respect to a ...
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Total ring of fractions vs. Localization
Let $R$ be a commutative ring and denote by $K(R)$ its total ring of fractions, the localization of $R$ with respect to $R_{\mathrm{reg}}$. For every multiplicative subset $U \subseteq R$ there is a ...
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What is classified by generalised Eilenberg MacLane spaces?
Given an abelian group $A$, the Eilenberg MacLane spaces $K(A,n)$ represent the the nth cohomology group in $A$.
In a similar vein, given an arbitrary group $G$ and a space $X$, maps to the ...
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What would cohomological localization be good for?
An open problem in algebraic topology is whether arbitrary cohomological localizations of simplicial sets (or, equivalently, topological spaces) can be proven to exist in ZFC. It's provable in ZFC ...
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Noncommutative localization of a ring: complete construction
I've been looking for the following construction in the literature, but I've only been able to find (very) partial proofs or proofs of special cases.
Let $R$ be a non-commutative ring and $S$ a ...
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Localizing an arbitrary additive category
Under which conditions localizing an additive category by some class S of morphisms yields and additive category? It seems easy to define certain addition on morphisms if we fix their representatives ...
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Categories in which isomorphism of stalks does not imply isomorphism of sheaves
Let $\mathcal{A}$ be a locally small category with colimits of small filtered diagrams.
For the purposes of this question, an $\mathcal{A}$-presheaf on a topological space $X$ is a functor $\Omega (X)^...
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Example of reflective subcategory of (Groups) whose reflector doesn't preserve finite products
A subcategory $D$ of a category $C$ is called reflective, if the embedding $D \hookrightarrow C$ has a left adjoint $L:C \to D$. The left adjoint $L$ is called the reflector. If the category $C$ is ...
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Elements in a localization - category theoretic approach
This question is about the elements in a localization $S^{-1} A$ of a commutative ring $A$. Is it possible to derive $\frac{a}{1} = 0 \in S^{-1} A \Rightarrow \exists s \in S : sa = 0$ only using the ...
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Can the category of S-local objects be reflective but not a localization by S?
This is cross-posted from MSE (and substantially re-written) after receiving no answers.
Suppose $\mathcal C$ is a category and $S \subseteq \operatorname{Mor}(\mathcal C)$ is some collection of ...
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Reflective Localizations vs. categories of local objects
Given a category $\mathcal{C}$ and a set (let's not bother with size issues here) $\mathcal{W} \subseteq \text{Mor}(\mathcal{C})$ we may form the category $\mathcal{C}[\mathcal{W}^{-1}]$ obtained by ...
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Acyclic aspherical spaces with acyclic fundamental groups
A space $X$ (by which I mean a CW complex) is acyclic if its reduced singular homology $\tilde H_\ast(X;\Bbb Z)$ is trivial in all degrees.
A discrete group $\pi$ is said to be acyclic if its ...
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Localizing at the primitive polynomials?
For any UFD $R$, the concept of a primitive polynomial (gcd of the coefficients is 1) makes sense in $R[x]$. The product of two primitive polynomials is primitive (Gauss's Lemma), and certainly 1 is a ...
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Localization of a symmetric monoidal category at a single morphism
Let $C$ be a symmetric monoidal category, and $f : x \to y$ be a morphism in $C$. I would like to construct the localization $C_f$ explicitly, which solves the universal property
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Atiyah Bott localisation applied to Euler characteristic
Suppose we have a torus action on a compact oriented manifold M. Assume the action has isolated fixed points. Why is it that the equivariant Euler class of the normal bundle at the fixed point (i.e. ...
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Smashing localizations in the category of spectra
Let $E$ be a spectrum. Then $E$ determines an idempotent localization functor $L_E: \mathrm{Sp} \to \mathrm{Sp}$ sending each spectrum to its $E$-localization.
The functor $L_E$ generally does not ...
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Is there a notion of a “model category which admits left Bousfield localization?”
At a conference not too long ago I gave a talk on (left) Bousfield localization and was asked an interesting question afterwards. The question was whether I knew any examples of model categories which ...
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Example of a saturated class of morphisms which is not _obviously_ saturated?
By "saturated class of morphisms" in a category $\mathcal{C}$, I mean a subcategory $\mathcal{W} \subset \mathcal{C}$ such that the image of $\mathcal{W}$ in $\mathcal{C}[\mathcal{W}^{-1}]$ consists ...
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How to identify localization of categories?
Let $C, D$ be categories with finite limits, $F:C\to D$ be a essentially surjective functor that commutes with finite limits, and let $S$ be the set of morphisms of $C$ that become isomorphisms in $D$ ...
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Localizing 2-categories about a single morphism
This question is a straight-up reference request, but of course I will be grateful for an answer in the event that no references are readily available. Consider a strict $2$-category $\mathbf{C}$ and ...
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Intersection of localization with finitely generated subalgebra of fraction field
Let $R$ be a (commutative) noetherian integral domain. Let $I$ be a prime ideal of $R$. Let $S$ be a finitely generated $R$-subalgebra of $\mathrm{Frac}(R)$.
Is $S \cap R_I$ necessarily finitely ...
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Localization of $\infty$-categories
In ordinary category theory, the localization $C[S^{-1}]$ at a class of morphisms $S$ (with possibly some assumptions on $S$) is a category $C[S^{-1}]$ together with a map $L:C \to C[S^{-1}]$ such ...
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Localization(s) of Categories
I've been trying to read a paper by Krause and came across a strange (to me, of course) notion of localization. After looking around for a long time, and then finding this on his site, I see that ...
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is localization of category of categories equivalent to |Cat|
It might be a stupid question.
Suppose There is a category of categories,denoted by CAT,where objects are categories, morpshims are functors between categories
Take multiplicative system S={category ...
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Is the localisation of a product of categories the product of the localisation?
Let $\cal C, \cal D$ be model categories. Hovey says in his monograph "Model Categories" that the homotopy category $\operatorname{Ho}(\cal C \times D)$ is isomorphic to $\operatorname{Ho}(\cal C) \...
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How to prove Arnold Conjecture without using S^1 localization?
By the Arnold Conjecture, I mean the following statement:
Let $M$ be a closed symplectic manifold, and $\phi:M\to M$ a Hamiltonian symplectomorphism with nondegenerate fixed points. Then $ \# \...
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Homotopical descent information contained in the Dwyer-Kan function complexes of a presheaf category?
Recall that the category of sheaves on some site $C$ equipped with a grothendieck topology $\tau$ is equivalent to the localization of the category of presheaves $W^{-1}Psh(C)$ at $W$ where $W$ is the ...
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Morphisms of hammocks in the simplicial localization
Let $\mathcal{C}$ be a category together with a wide subcategory $\mathcal{W} \subset \mathcal{C}$.
In Calculating Simplicial Localizations by Dwyer and Kan, a morphism of hammocks is defined to ...
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Absence of Maps Between p-local and q-local spectra
Suppose $X$ and $Y$ are spectra (or homotopy classes thereof) such that $X$ is p-local and $Y$ is q-local, for primes $p\neq q$. Is it indeed true then, and if so how would one show that $[X,Y]_\ast=...
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Commutative ring $R$ with no nontrivial idempotents, with a localization $R_r$ with infinitely many idempotents
I am looking for a commutative ring $R$ with $1$ such that $R$ has no idempotents and there exists $r\in R$ such that the localization ring $R_r$ has infinitely many idempotents.
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Model categories as a tool to resolve size issues for localizing categories
I have a rather basic question about one motivation for introducing model categories in David White's notes, as a possible way to overcome troubles with size issues appearing when localizing a ...
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Is there an obvious reason why p-localization of spectra is a finite localization?
Is there an obvious reason why $p$-localization of spectra is a "finite" localization in the sense of Haynes Miller? In other words, is there an obvious reason why the localizing subcategory (of the ...
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Is hammock localization a localization in the sense of Lurie?
In a series of papers ([1], [2] and [3]), Dwyer and Kan introduced the hammock localization [2] as an effective technique to compute the simplicial localization of a model category [1]. This is meant ...
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When is an $\infty$-categorical localization left exact?
Let $L: \mathcal C^\to_\leftarrow L\mathcal C : i$ be an adjunction with $i$ fully faithful. In ordinary category theory, $L$ is left exact iff the class of $L$-local morphisms is stable under base ...
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Are localization functors always essentially surjective?
Let $\mathcal{C}$ be a category and $\mathcal{W} \subseteq \text{Arr}(\mathcal{C})$ a set (or class) of arrows.
There are (at least) two notions of localization of $\mathcal{C}$ with respect to $\...
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Overloading of the word "local" in category theory
The word "local" in category theory does not seem to have a precise definition in itself but it often appears as part of other terminology. To my understanding, it is then used in the ...
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Localizations of model categories and $\infty$-categories
I am interested in the relation between Bousfield localizations of model categories and localizations of $(\infty,1)$-categories.
According to Hirschhorn's book we can form the left Bousfield ...
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Localisation of categories, but instead of "isomorphisms" I want "morphisms with right inverse". Construction via calculus of fractions possible?
Let $\mathcal{C}$ be a category and $S$ a collection of morphisms in $\mathcal{C}$. The localisation $\mathcal{C}[S^{-1}]$ is defined via a functor $F: \mathcal{C} \longrightarrow \mathcal{C}[S^{-1}]$ ...
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When a localization of a category is (non-)reflective?
Let $S$ be a class of maps of a category $\mathcal{C}$. The localization of $\mathcal{C}$ at $S$ is reflective when the localization functor $\mathcal{C} \to \mathcal{C}[S^{-1}]$ has a fully faithful ...
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Cross correlation detection in binary Hamming distance
Given two long binary strings of length N, it's easy to find the Hamming distance between them. If you're allowed to cyclically shift one of the strings, you'll get N different Hamming distances when ...
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Is an abelian category a Serre subcategory of its ind-category?
Let $\mathcal C$ be an abelian category and consider its ind-category
$Ind(\mathcal C)$:
(1) Is $Ind(\mathcal C)$ always abelian? (If not, what conditions are needed?)
(2) Is $\mathcal C\subseteq ...
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How to prove a 1-localization of a 1-category is already an $(\infty,1)$-localization?
I don't even know this fits in here or in Mathematics Stack Exchange, but let me ask. I'm new to simplicial stuff, so a good reference would be quite helpful.
Let's say $C$ is a certain category, and ...
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Interesting "epimorphisms" of $E_\infty$-ring spectra
$\newcommand{\Mod}{\mathbf{Mod}} \newcommand{\map}{\mathrm{map}_{E_\infty-A}}$ Suppose $i:A\to B$ is a map of $E_\infty$-ring spectra. It induces a functor of $\infty$-categories $\Mod_B\to\Mod_A$ by ...
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Ample divisors on $T$-varieties
Question: how does one use a torus action to help decide whether a divisor or line bundle is ample?
In more detail: I have a (normal, but usually rather singular) $T$-variety $X$, where $T$ is an ...
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