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How to read the definition of Grothendieck Pretopology in SGA4?

In SGA4, the first axiom of a Grothendieck pretopology is given as: PT0: Pour tout objet $X$ de $C$, les morphismes des familles de morphismes de $Cov(𝑋)$ sont quarrables. (Rappelons qu’un morphisme ...
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Subobject classifier for sheaves on large sites with WISC

Let $\mathsf{C}$ be a possibly large category with a Grothendieck topology satisfying the Weakly Initial Set of Covers condition: there is for each $X$ a set (not a proper class) of covering families ...
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Do the covariant maps of a sheaf with transfer automatically satisfy a dual gluing axiom?

I'm interested in describing a notion of equivariant sheaves that uses Mackey functors on topoi. We can describe a genuine G-spectrum as a spectral Mackey functor on the topos of finite G-sets. If we ...
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Zorn's lemma for Grothendieck sites

In every treatment of Grothendieck sites I can find, flasque sheaves are not defined in the way one would naïvely expect from ordinary sheaf cohomology; namely instead of saying that "restriction ...
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Flasque sheaves on a site

This is a cross-post from MathStackexchange. We define a flasque sheaf on a site as one whose first Čech cohomology vanishes for every covering of every object of the site. I know this definition is ...
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Direct and inverse image terminology

Let $f\colon X\to Y$ be a continuous map. Then $f$ induces a geometric morphism $f^\ast\dashv f_\ast\colon \mathrm{Sh}(X)\leftrightarrows\mathrm{Sh}(Y)$, whose left adjoint is called inverse image and ...
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What is the logical progression in algebraic tools for studying spaces (varieties -> schemes, sheaves, topos etc.)?

Some algebraists (Cartier, Weil, Atiyah, etc.) sometimes speak of geometry as a long history of essentially asking the same question—"what is space, and how would one describe a space uniquely". ...
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What does an ideal correspond to in the internal language of sheaves?

Suppose I have a sheaf $\mathcal F$ in some topos $\mathrm{Sh}(\mathcal C)$. Then this becomes the sheaf of rings from algebraic geometry when described as a ring in the internal language of the topos....
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epimorphism of fppf sheaves is an fppf morphism

I asked this question on math.stackexchange (https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2693471/epimorphism-of-fppf-sheaves-is-an-fppf-morphism) but didn't get an answer. Maybe someone here can help. ...
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Locality in Grothendieck Topologies

Let $\mathcal{C}$ be a category and $\mathcal{J}$ be a Grothendieck topology on it (i.e., $(\mathcal{C},\mathcal{J})$ is a site). Then what is a good notion of locality in it? I came up with the ...
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How are the left and the right group of a bitorsor related?

This question arose from my answer to To what extent does a torsor determine a group: it turns out that I do not know one thing about it. Let $G$, $G'$ be groups in some nice enough category (you may ...
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Properties of the petit Zariski topos

What are some (intrinsically formulated) properties of the locally ringed topos $(\mathbf{Sh}(X),\mathcal{O}_X)$ for some scheme $X$, which do not hold for arbitrary locally ringed toposes? Is there, ...
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Is there any notion of "smoothification" from $\mathbb{R}$-schemes to generalized smooth spaces?

I will write $\operatorname{Diff}$ to denote a category of generalized smooth spaces e.g. $Sh(\mathsf{CartSp})$. Is there a version of $\operatorname{Diff}$ for which there exists a functor $\mathcal{...
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How should one think about sheafification and the difference between a sheaf and a presheaf

The first time I got in touch with the abstract notion of a sheaf on a topological space $X$, I thought of it as something which assigns to an open set $U$ of $X$ something like the ring of continuous ...
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Is the analytification functor part of a geometric morphism of topoi?

Let $Sh(\mathsf{\mathbb{C}-fAlg}^{op})$ be the topos of zariski sheaves on finitely genertaed $\mathbb{C}$-algebras. A complex analytic space for our purpose is a locally ringed space locally ...
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Relationship between coherent toposes/coherent logic and coherent sheaves

I've heard it claimed that the adjective "coherent" in logic/topos theory (i.e. coherent logic, coherent toposes, coherent categories) was adopted to fit in with the terminology of coherent sheaves in ...
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What's the easiest example of a morphism of topoi that is not from that of a site?

A topos is defined to be a category that's equivalent to the category of sheaves on a site. Morphisms between topoi is defined by a pair of adjoint functors that behave like pull-back/push-forward of ...
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Category of copresheaves over commutative monoids

Let C be a symmetric monoidal category. Let Comm(C) be the category of commutative monoids in C. Consider the topos X = CoPSh(Comm(C)) of covariant functors from Comm(C) to the category Set of sets. ...