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What is the natural motivation for smooth/étale/unramified morphisms restricting from formally smooth/étale/unramified morphisms?
(I asked it first in MathStackExchange but I haven't get an answer yet)
Smooth (resp. étale) morphisms are just locally finitely presented + formally smooth (resp. étale) morphisms.
For unramified ...
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Nice application of generalized smooth spaces
I am a fan of category theory in general, and I appreciate that various brands of generalized smooth spaces (Diffeological spaces, Chen spaces, Frolicher spaces ...) form much nicer categories of ...