Questions tagged [pullback]
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Cartesian product is to monoidal product as pullback is to what?
I'm trying to complete the following pattern
product : monoidal product : coproduct
pullback : ? : pushout
That is, if the monoidal product is a ...
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Pullback of Lie algebras [closed]
Let $k$ be a field of characteristic 0 and let $\varphi:\mathfrak{g}\rightarrow\mathfrak{f}$ and $\psi:\mathfrak{h}\rightarrow\mathfrak{f}$ be maps of Lie algebras. Is there a reference showing that ...
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Homotopy pullback in the category of DG algebras
I was wondering if somebody could tell me the definition of homotopy pullback. More precisely, is there a description of the homotopy pullback in the category of (graded-commutative) DG algebras over ...
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Is the restriction of an injective sheaf on a closed subscheme still injective?
Let $X$ be a Noetherian scheme, and let $i:Z\to X$ be the inclusion of a closed subscheme $Z$. Let $\mathcal{I}$ be an injective sheaf of modules on $X$.
Question. Is $i^*\mathcal{I}$ still an ...
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Covariant Derivative of sections of a pullback bundle
Suppose that we have two smooth manifolds $M$ and $N$ and a smooth mapping $\phi : M \rightarrow N$. The Differential of that smooth mapping induces a bundle map $D\phi : TM \rightarrow TM$ between ...
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Pull-back a section of a vector bundle
Let $M$ be a manifold of dimension $n$ and $\mathcal D$ be a distribution of dimension $n-1$. We consider the quotient bundle $TM/\mathcal D = \bigsqcup_{p \in M} T_pM/\mathcal D_p$ with the ...
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What is, explicitly, a pullback in the category of $L_\infty$ algebras?
I was wondering if the category of $L_\infty$ algebras is complete and in particular I am looking for an explicit construction of the pullback for
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Why trace is more natural than (preferred to) determinant for smooth map $f:M\to N$?
Cross-post from MSE.
For a continuous map $f:(M,g)\to (N,h)$, between Riemannian manifolds $(M,g)$ and $(N,h)$ we can pullback $h$ by $f$. Most experts take the trace from this new tensor and work ...
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Measure in $\mathbb {C} ^p$ [closed]
If we have a non-constant holomorphic map $ f: \mathbb C ^ p \to X $, where $ X $ is a complex manifold. Let $ \omega $ be a metric on $X$, so $ \omega $ is a positive definite $ (1,1) $-form.
Is $ f ...
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Pull back of a Bounded form
Let $(X, \omega) $ be a complex manifold and let $\alpha $ be a $p$-form $\omega$-bounded on $X$.
Let $f:Y\to X$ be a holomorphic function.
Is $f^*\alpha$ $f^*(\omega)$-bounded on $Y$ ?
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Why do elementary topoi have pullbacks?
In the book of Szabo "Algebra of Proofs", Definition 13.1.9 introduces an elementary topos as a cartesian closed category with a subobject classifier. On the other hand, many other sources including ...
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Pullback of boundary divisors under forgetful maps
Let $\overline{\mathbf{M}}_{0,n}$ be the moduli space of stable $n-$pointed smooth rational curve of genus zero and $\overline{\mathbf{U}}_{0,n}$ the universal family described by $\pi_n:\overline{\...
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Splitting after pullback under finite flat morphisms
I recently became aware of an interesting result, which claims for smooth projective curve over a finite field, you can pull back any vector bundle, under combinations of Galois covers and Frobenius, ...
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Injectivity of the cohomology map associated to the pullback of line bundles
Let $f:X\to Y$ be a flat, surjective, smooth morphism between smooth algebraic varieties (over $\mathbb C$). We assume that $f$ has relative dimension $n$ and we assume also that $\dim Y\ge 2$ (just ...
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Pullback connection and diffeomorphism of the base
Let $p \colon E \to B$ be a vector bundle, $\nabla^E \colon E \to E \otimes \Omega^1_B$ a connection on $E$, and $\phi \colon B \xrightarrow{\sim} B$ a diffeomorphism. Further, let there be a natural (...
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Nef divisors on abelian varieties are pullbacks of ample ones
It is well known that for any polarization ( that is, ample line bundle) $L$ on an abelian variety $A$, there is an isogeny $\phi\colon A \to B$ to another abelian variety with a principal ...
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Does Spec functor sends pushouts of rings into pullbacks of sets?
This question was posted here on StackExchange.
Let $A$ be a commutative ring and $B,C$ be two commutative $A$-algebras.
Consider the pushout square of ring homomorphism
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Pullback of homogeneous twisted differential operators
Let $X,Y$ be smooth complex varieties and let $G$ be an smooth affine algebraic group acting on $X$ and $Y$ such that $X,Y$ are $G$-homogeneous spaces (the $G$ action is transitive). We also let $f:Y \...
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Techniques for computing homotopy pullbacks
I am in the context of simplicial sets. I have a square diagram that I want to show to be homotopy pullback. What I can grasp is that it is a pullback up to some equivalences in the middle of my ...
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Transverse measures in pseudo-Anosov diffeomorphisms
I've recently begun doing research involving pseudo-Anosov diffeomorphisms, which are diffeomorphisms on surfaces $f : M \to M$ admitting two singular measured foliations $(\mathcal F^s, \nu^s)$ and $(...
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Restriction of Ext sheaves on closed subschemes
Let $f:X\rightarrow C$ be a morphism, where $C$ is a smooth curve. For $t\in C$ let $i_t:X_t = f^{-1}(t)\rightarrow X$ be the inclusion of the fiber of $f$ over $t$, and let $\mathcal{F}$ a coherent ...
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Restriction of the sheaf of relative differentials
Let $f:X\rightarrow C$ be a morphism, where $C$ is a smooth curve, and let $\Omega_f$ be the sheaf of relative differentials.
For $t\in C$ let $i_t:X_t = f^{-1}(t)\rightarrow X$ be the inclusion of ...
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$H$ very ample, $f$ finite, is there uniform $C=C(\mathrm{deg}(f))$ for $C f^* H$ very ample?
Let $X$ and $Y$ be normal projective varieties over $\mathbb{C}$ of dimension $n$. Let $f: X \rightarrow Y$ be a finite morphism. Also, let $H$ be a very ample divisor on $Y$.
Is there a constant $C=...
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Exercise in the book "Lectures on Kähler geometry"
I am currently studying the book "Lectures on Kähler geometry" by Andrei Moroianu and am looking for help concerning Exercise 5.8 (3) which is to prove the following Lemma 5.11
Let $f: M \...
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Pull back group cohomology onto handle decomposition
A construction encountered in the Dijkgraaf-Witten invariant uses the following ingredients:
An oriented, (assumed here to be smooth) manifold $M^n$
A finite group $G$ (and a field, chosen to be $\...
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Properties of codimension under pull back
If I pull back a cycle of codimension $c$ along a morphism of schemes I can easily see that the codimension can stay the same or the codimension can drop to all the way to $0$. But intuitively it ...
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History of the pullback corner notation
Where/when did the convention originate of marking pullback (and/or pushout) squares by that little right-angle symbol in the corner?
The earliest instance I’ve been able to find is in Paul Taylor’s ...
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Kernel of Gysin map
Let $X$ be a variety, let $D_1$, $D_2$ be linearly equivalent effective Cartier divisors on $X$ and let $\varphi_i\colon A_{k+1}(X)\to A_{k}(D_i)$ be the Gysin homomorphism. Is $\ker(\varphi_1) = \ker(...
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Isomorphism of probability spaces
Consider a surjective map $f:(X, \sigma(f)) \to (Y, \mathcal{Y})$, if a measure $\nu$ is given in $(Y, \mathcal{Y})$ the pullback $\nu(f(\cdot))$ is a measure on $(X, \sigma(f))$, similarly if $\mu$ ...
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Does "symmetry" of a pullback connection should be obvious?
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Smooth submersions - smallest universal subclass of regular epimorphisms?
The smooth category has many problems. One is that pullbacks of regular epimorphisms need not exist.
However, pullbacks along submersions always exist. It also seems that submersions are universal (i....
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Fiber product of nilmanifolds
Let $M_1$ and $M_2$ be nilmanifolds. We can see them as total spaces of torus bundles $\pi_i:M_i \to B_i\ \ i=1,2$. Suppose that $B_1=B_2$ and that the fibers are torus of the same dimension and ...
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Left adjoint of pullback
In Awodey's Category Theory, p233 of 2nd ed. (or p205 of 1st ed.), he states:
Indeed, the UMP of pullbacks essentially states that composition along
any function α is left adjoint to pullback ...
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Pull-back of a fibration along a homotopy equivalence and homotopy classes of sections
I previously asked this on Math.SE but didn't receive a satisfactory answer.
Let $p:E\rightarrow B$ be a fibration (i.e. have the homotopy lifting property with respect to all spaces), and $f: B'\...
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finite generation of a certain type of subring
Let $k$ be a field, and let $R$ be a finitely generated $k$-algebra. (If it helps, you may assume $R$ is an integral domain.) Let $I$ be an ideal of finite colength. Note that $A:=k+I$ is a subring ...
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Is continuity of a functor stable under pullback?
Let $p:C\rightarrow D$, $i:F\rightarrow D$ be functors of 2-categories, and we form the lax pullback of $p$ along $i$ $$
\bar{p}:C\times_D^{lax} F\rightarrow F$$
Q1: Is it true that if $p$ ...
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Pullback of a constant sheaf
Let $\varphi:X\to Y$ be a surjective morphism of schemes which are connected and of finite type.
Let $A$ be an abelian group, $\mathscr{F}$ be the constant sheaf on $X$ with fibers $A$ and $\mathscr{...
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Definition of subobject classifier in presheaves
I am reading Awodey (Category Theory, 1st edition), p 175, and I have difficulties to understand the paragraph about the subobject classifier of $\mathbf{Sets}^{\mathbf{C^{op}}}$.
First let me quote ...
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Pullback measures
Why do all measure theory textbooks present the concept of push-forward measure, but never the concept of pull-back measure? Doesn't the latter exist?
It's true that the naive treatment of such a ...
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