Questions tagged [schemes]
The first purpose of schemes theory is the geometrical study of solutions of algebraic systems of equations, not only over the real/complex numbers, but also over integer numbers (and more generally over any commutative ring with 1). It was finalized by Alexandre Grothendieck, during the 1950s and the 1960s.
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Smallness of the category of schemes of finite type
Most sources about motivic homotopy theory mention that the category of (smooth) separated schemes of finite type over a (Noetherian of finite Krull dimension) base $S$ is essentially small, which is ...
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What Spec-like functors are there?
The real spectrum functor is an analog of Spec for partially ordered commutative rings and real closed fields in place of commutative reals and algebraically closed fields. I was hoping that there ...
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on universal homeomorphisms between schemes
We are taught since when we are young that schemes are cool because they take into account "nilpotents". This means also that we can distinguish between schemes which have the same underlying ...
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Which locally ringed spaces are schemifiable?
(most of this question is re-asking Schemification (schematization?) of locally ringed spaces, which did not get answered)
Given a locally ringed space $X$, say that a schemification of $X$ is a ...
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Why define curves over perfect fields?
One may define a curve (e.g. separated scheme of finite type of dim. 1) over an algebraically closed field, as done in Hartshorne's book. A weaker assumption, which is used commonly, is to define a ...
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functions coming from a perverse sheaf
Let's take a scheme $X$ over a finite field $k$ and $f:X(k)\rightarrow\mathbb{Q}_{\ell}$
What kind of condition do I need on $f$ if I want that it comes from an irreducible perverse sheaf on $X$?
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$\Bbb A^1$-Localisation of Schemes, and $\Bbb A^1$-Rigid Schemes
Question 1: Are there some publications or preprints that provide $\Bbb A^1$-fibrant replacements of certain classes of (smooth) schemes?
Of course, smooth schemes that are $\Bbb A^1$-fibrant are $\...
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Algebro-geometric version of {vector fields} $\longleftrightarrow$ {flows} correspondence?
Main Question: What Is the correpondence between flows and vector
fields in algebraic geometry?
Here is a more precise statement could be an answer If it was true (I have no idea it is):
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Archimedean fibers "intersecting" curves on arithmetic surfaces
Let's fix a number field $K$ with its ring of integers $O_K$. Moreover consider an arithmetic surface $f:S\to \text{Spec } O_K$. For every archimedean place $\sigma$ in $K$, $K_\sigma$ is the ...
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A suspected typo, and Deligne's image of the general fiber swallowing the special
In SGA 4.5 (Arcata V.1) Deligne writes:
Let $X$ be a complex analytic variety and $f:X\rightarrow D$ map $X$ into the
disk. Write $[0,t]$ for closed line segment with extremities 0 and $t$ in
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A Hartogs-type criterion for flatness
Let $U$ be a smooth affine connected variety over $\mathbb C$ and let $V\subset U$ be an open whose complement is of codimension at least two.
Now, let $Y$ be a smooth quasi-affine connected variety ...
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Are all formal schemes *really* Ind-schemes?
$\newcommand\LRS{\mathsf{LRS}}\newcommand\FormalSch{\mathsf{FormalSch}}\DeclareMathOperator\Spf{Spf}\newcommand\IndSch{\mathsf{IndSch}}\newcommand\ALRS{\mathsf{ALRS}}\newcommand\FSch{\mathsf{FSch}}$I'...
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Equivalent definitions of the Hasse invariant
As probably many others before me, I got stuck in verifying all the nice properties of the Hasse invariant.
Let me start by recalling one definition:
Let $E\to S$ be an elliptic curve in ...
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Spin structures on schemes
This is a very naive question, but I have been wondering about the role of spin geometry and spinor structures in the context of algebraic geometry. I know the definition of spin structures and ...
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Useful, non-trivial general theorems about morphisms of schemes
I apologize in advance as this is not a research level question but rather one which could benefit from expert attention but is potentially useful mainly to novice mathematicians.
I'm trying to ...
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Tube of a mod p point on a smooth Z_(p)-scheme
Let $R$ be a smooth, integral, finite-type $\mathbb{Z}_{(p)}$-algebra of relative dimension $n$ and $\overline{f} \colon R \to \mathbb{F}_p$. Then Hensel's lemma tells us that this lifts to a map $R \...
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Quotients of quasi affine varieties and extension of scalars
I have some questions about GIT quotients and extensions of scalars of categorical quotients:
1) Let $X$
be a complex algebraic quasi-affine variety, $G$
an algebraic reductive group over $\...
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representability of some mapping stack
Let $S$ be an Artin stack of finite type.
We assume that it contains a point as an open dense.
Is it always true that the mapping stack:
$Hom^{0}(\mathbb{P}^{1},S)$
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About complete residues on curves
Preliminaries:
Let $X$ be a projective smooth curve (scheme of finite type, integral and of dimension $1$) over a perfect field $F$. Let $K=K(X)$ be the function field of $X$ and for a closed point $...
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What sort of ind-scheme is this?
It apparently follows from work of Velu (MathSciNet) that every isogeny between elliptic curves in (long) Weierstrass form over $k$ can be written in the form
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\left(\frac{u(x)}{v(x)}, \frac{s_1(x)+...
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Verdier duality on excellent schemes
Let $f:X\rightarrow Y$ be a regular morphism between $k$-schemes which are noetherian and excellent with a funcion of dimension.
In the book by Illusie-Laszlo-Orgogozo, there is a theorem (4.4.1 in ...
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extending local systems on a neighbourhood
Let $Y$ an affine finite type scheme over an algebraically closed field $k$.
Let $S$ be a closed subscheme of $Y$ and $Y'$ the henselization of $Y$ along $S$.
If we have a $\mathbb{Z}_{\ell}$ local ...
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l-adic local system. on hensel schemes
Let $k$ be a field, $\ell$ a prime different from the characteristic.
If I take $S$ a closed subscheme of $Y$, which is a $k$-scheme of finite type, is it true that any $\mathbb{Z}_{\ell}$-local ...
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Obstructed automorphisms of schemes
Let $X$ be a smooth projective scheme over a field $\mathbf{k}$ of characteristic zero such that $\mathrm{H}^0(X, \mathrm{T}X)$ vanishes, and let $f$ be an automorphism of $X$. I would like to have an ...
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Comparison of sheaves of modular forms
Let $\pi:E\to X$ the universal generalized elliptic curve over the compactified modular curve, with zero section $e: X\to E$. Now consider the following two sheaves on $X$:
$e^*\Omega^1_{E/X}$ and $\...
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henselizations along closed subscheme
Where can I find some references about henselizations ablong a closed subscheme?
For example if I take a map $Y\times\mathbb{A}^{1}\rightarrow Y$ and $Z$ a closed subscheme.
Let $Y_{Z}^{h}$ the ...
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infinitesimal lifting criterion for non-noetherian schemes
We have the "standard criterion" which says that a morphism $f:X\rightarrow Y$ is smooth if:
1/ $Y$ is locally noetherian.
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Mapping scheme from a proper variety
Let $X$ be a proper scheme over a field $k$. Let $T$ be a scheme over $k$. Is it true that morphisms $T \times X \to \mathbb{A}^1$ are in bijection with morphisms $T \to \Gamma (X, \mathcal{O}_X)$ (...
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Description of the equalizer of $\prod _j R/I_j \rightrightarrows \prod _{i,j}R/(I_i+I_j)$
This is a crosspost of this MSE question.
I have asked several questions in an attmept to get a general version of the Chinese remainder theorem without conditions on the ideals which will trivially ...
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History of the functor of points
Until now, I thought the functor of points approach was introduced by Grothendieck at the 1973 Buffalo seminar.
However, in this note by Lawvere the author writes:
"I myself had learned the ...
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Morphisms of locally ringed spaces into affine schemes
In Görtz and Wedhorn's Algebraic Geometry I, there's the following proposition:
Proposition 3.4. Let $(X,\mathcal O_X)$ be a locally ringed space. If $Y$ is an affine scheme then the natural map ...
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An apparent equivalence of the category of affine schemes over $S$ and the category of quasi-coherent $\mathcal{O}_S$-algebras
I had asked something very similar before on math.se (deleted now) but unfortunately it hadn't received a lot of attention. I decided to re-ask here.
Let $S$ be a fixed scheme. Is the following true?
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The SGA1 version of Riemann's Existence Theorem is about analytic spaces. How does one relate it to topological covering spaces?
In SGA1, Theoreme 5.1 (Riemann's Existence Theorem) states:
Let $X$ be a $\mathbb{C}$-scheme locally of finite type, $X^{\operatorname{an}}$ the associated analytical space. Then the functor which ...
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Arithmetic zeta function and local zeta functions
For the arithmetic zeta function of (say) a nonsingular projective variety $X$, one has the following Euler product
\begin{equation}
\zeta_X(s) = \prod_{p\ \mbox{prime}}\zeta_{X\vert\mathbb{F}_p}(s),
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Base schemes and Bayesian priors
One of Grothendieck's dicta about algebraic geometry is to consider "the relative situation", where one doesn't consider the category of schemes but of schemes over a fixed base scheme.
In Bayesian ...
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Are there varieties with non finitely generated Picard group and vanishing irregularity?
Let $X$ be a smooth projective variety over an algebraically closed field $k$.
Can it happen that $q(X) := \dim H^1(X,\mathcal O_X) =0$ and $\textrm{Pic} \,X$ is not finitely generated?
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Reference for de Rham cohomology in positive characteristic
It is known in characteristic $0$ that (algebraic) de Rham cohomology is a Weil cohomology theory. However, in characteristic $p > 0$ it isn't, if only because it has mod $p$ coefficients, whereas ...
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Chevalley devissage
Let $G$ be an algebraic group over a perfect field $k$. Then it is know that it can be written as an extension of an affine algebraic group and a proper algebraic group.
Is there a similar result for ...
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Higher-dimensional Artin L-functions
I begin by clarifying that the "higher-dimensional" in my question refers to analogues of Artin L-functions over higher dimensional base schemes than $\mathrm{Spec}(\mathbb{Z})$.
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Why would one "attempt" to define points of a motive as $\operatorname{Ext}^1(\mathbb{Q}(0),M)$?
I'm a novice when it comes to motives. (I've read multiple introductory texts.)
I'm attempting to read Galois Theory and Diophantine geometry by Minhyong Kim. In it, he says that "One might attempt, ...
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Blow up along a section of a smooth morphism
Let $C$ be a ground locally notherian and quasiprojective scheme. Let $\pi:S\to B$ be a $C$-morphism of finite type $C$-schemes. We call $\pi$ a $C$-smooth morphism if the morphisms $S\to C$ and $B\to ...
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Parahoric Group Scheme
I am looking for the definition of a parahoric group scheme in the sense of Bruhat and Tits? I couldn't find a reference for that? at least a "clear" reference!
thanks
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Homotopy types of schemes
Let $X$ be a scheme over $\mathbb{C}$.
When does the topological space $X\left(\mathbb{C}\right)$ of $\mathbb{C}$-points have the homotopy type of a finite CW-complex?
When does the topological ...
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About the relation between the categories $\text{Sch}$, $\text{LRS}$ and $\text{RS}$
I've asked this question https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1407451/about-the-relation-between-the-categories-textsch-textlrs-and-text on math.stackexchange , however I don't think I will ...
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In how many ways can one extend the zero section of the affine line with a double origin
Let $X$ be the affine line with a double origin over $\mathrm{Spec}\,\mathbb Z$. Let $X_\eta$ be its generic fibre, the affine line with a double origin over $\mathrm{Spec}\,\mathbb Q$.
Let $0$ be ...
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Is the stack of varieties with a big line bundle algebraic
In Starr's paper https://www.math.stonybrook.edu/~jstarr/papers/moduli4.pdf the folk result that the fibred category of pairs $(X\to S, L)$, where $S$ is an affine scheme, $X\to S$ is flat proper ...
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Isotrivial families with non-zero Kodaira spencer map
Let $S$ be a smooth quasi-projective curve over the complex numbers. Let $P$ be a closed point in $S$. Let $f:\mathcal X \to S$ be a polarized family of smooth projective connected varieties. To this ...
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Irreducible component of a scheme over a dvr
Let $\mathcal M$ be a (reduced) quasi-projective scheme over a dvr (of mixed caracteristics), $R$. Suppose that the generic fiber $\mathcal M_{\eta_R}$ is (nonempty) smooth and irreducible of ...
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The scheme $y^n = x^{2n}$ for $n$ a rational number [closed]
Let $n\geq 1$ be an integer. If $A$ is a ring, then the spectrum of $A[x,y]/(y^n - x^{2n})$ is a well-defined (affine) scheme, say $X_n$. This scheme describes the "variety" given by the equation $y^...
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Torsors trivializing over a fixed finite etale cover
Let $S$ be an integral regular scheme and let $T\to S$ be a finite etale morphism. Let $G$ be a smooth affine finite type group scheme over $S$.
Is the set of $S$-isomorphism classes of $G$-torsors ...
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