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Singular cohomology as a sheaf of $\infty$-categories
In several expositions of $\infty$-categories, I read that singular cohomology of a topological space with integral coefficients is a sheaf valued in $D(\mathbb{Z})$, if we consider Top and $D(\mathbb{...
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Topos as a totally cocomplete object in a 2-category CART
In the preface to Sketches of an elephant, Peter Johnstone gives a list of characterizations of topos, some applicable to elementary (ii- finite limits and power objects) other to Grothendieck (i- ...
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Etale cohomology of relative elliptic curve
Let $E_a: y^2 = x(x-1)(x-a)$ be a smooth proper relative elliptic curve over $\text{Spec}(A)$, with $a\in A$, and assume $\text{Spec}(A)$ is a $\text{Spec}(\mathbb{Q}_p)$-scheme.
Let $R^1f_*\mathbb{Q}...
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Finding global sections of a sheaf of sets using (some kind of) sheaf cohomology?
Let $X$ be a compact manifold, say, and $G$ a Lie group, and $H$ a closed Lie subgroup such that $M \cong G/H$ is a homogeneous space. (For my purposes, $X$ and $M$ would be a smooth projective ...
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The conormal sheaf is the sheaf of sections of the conormal bundle for smooth manifolds
$\def\sO{\mathcal{O}}
\def\d{\mathrm{d}}$In ringed spaces theory, there is a notion of “conormal sheaf of an immersion” (mainly used in scheme theory), whereas in smooth manifold theory, there is the ...
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References on principal $\mathbf{C}$-bundles, where $\mathbf{C}$ is a category?
Is there any treatment on principal "categorical" bundles - principal $\mathbf{C}$-bundles, where $\mathbf{C}$ is some (topological) category?
I know that one can define "categorical ...
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Recommendations for getting into sheaves with emphasis on differential geometry and algebraic topology
I want to study the theory of sheaves from a categorical point of view with an emphasis on applications in algebraic topology and differential geometry and I'm looking for a good introductory book to ...
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Isbell duality between algebras and sheaves
nLab says on Isbell duality, the following:
A general abstract adjunction
$(\mathcal{O} \dashv \operatorname{Spec}) : \mathrm{CoPresheaves} \leftrightarrows \mathrm{Presheaves}$
relates (higher) ...
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On the generalization of a Cech-to-sheaf type spectral sequence
Let $(X,O_{X})$ be a ringed space and $\mathcal{F^{\bullet}}$ be a bounded below complex of $O_{X}$-modules on $(X,O_{X})$. On [Stacks Project 20.25.1][1] it is shown that there is a weakly convergent ...
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Where can I find a definition of $\underline{H}^p(X, \mathscr{F})$?
Let $X$ be a topological space and $\mathscr{F}$ a sheaf on $X$. In the paper Tropical cycle classes for non-archimedean spaces and weight decomposition of de Rham cohomology sheaves by Yifeng Liu, ...
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Is there a description of cellular automata in form of sheaves?
Cellular automata are defined through rules in a local neighborhood and sheaves, as far as I understand, can be used to glue local data to global data. Has there been any effort to bring those two ...
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Are groups determined by their morphisms from solvable groups?
$\newcommand{\Grp}{\mathrm{Grp}}$Consider the category of groups $\Grp$, and within it we have the solvable groups $S$. Then any group $G$ determines the functor from solvable groups: $$h_G:=\text{hom}...
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Invariance of categories of sheaves (on simplicial presheaves) under (local) weak equivalence
Let $\mathcal{C}$ be a Grothendieck site (secretly in my head I am thinking of Hausdorff topological spaces with open covers; if I am daring I might be thinking of the big etale site on complex ...
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Topology on cohomology of a sheaf of topological groups
Let $X$ be a topological space and $\mathcal{F}$ be a sheaf of commutative topological groups on $X$. I am interested in the following question:
Is there a natural way to introduce topology on $H^i(X,...
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Refinement of hypercovers by ordinary covers
I am asking for references and discussions of statements of the form
Every bounded hypercover can be refined by an ordinary cover
By "bounded" I mean "finite height". E.g., are ...
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Schur's lemma for sheaves with different reduced Hilbert polynomials
Recall Schur's Lemma for Gieseker-semistable sheaves, in particular the injectivity statement:
Let $\psi : F \to G$ be a morphism of Gieseker-semistable sheaves. If $p(F)=p(G)$ and $F$ is stable, ...
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Embedding abelian categories into abelian sheaves
The Yoneda functor from an abelian category into sheaves of abelian groups is shown to be exact in The Stacks Project, Lemma 19.9.2. I like this proof because it is constructive and it doesn't use ...
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Infinity-categorical exceptional push-forward
Classically, if $f:X\to Y$ is a map of locally compact Hausdorff topological spaces, one can define the exceptional push-forward functor $f_!:Sh(X;k)\to Sh(Y;k)$ among $k$-valued sheaves for, say, a ...
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Equivariant sheafs and $G$ actions on modules
I am reading Simpson's paper on The Hodge filtration on nonabelian cohomology. In particular Chapter 5 (p.24) and I am confused about the notion of a group acting on an equivariant sheaf.
The set up ...
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Mathematical background required to learn about sheaves
Due to my interest in type theory (and higher type theory), I have found that learning about sheaves might be useful (for, e.g., sheaf models of type theories). There is Kashiwara and Schapira's ...
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Topos with enough projectives
It is often observed that every presheaf topos has enough projectives, as a corollary of the result that representables are projective and every presheaf is a colimit of representables. We also have ...
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Homotopy cosheaf?
Let $C$ be a site, $\mathbf{S}$ some ($\infty$-? homotopy?) category of spaces.
Question. What do you call a (covariant!) functor $F:C\to \mathbf{S}$ enjoying the following property: for every ...
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Computing derived functor of a complex with non-acyclic terms
Let $A^\bullet =(\dots\to A^i\to A^{i+1}\to\dots)$ be a bounded below complex in an abelian category $\mathcal{A}$ with sufficiently many injectives. Let $F\colon \mathcal{A}\to \mathcal{B}$ be an ...
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Reference request: sheaf-theoretic operations in the classical topology?
Like many graduate students before trying to learn something about étale cohomology and Deligne's proof(s) of the Riemann hypothesis part of the Weil conjectures, I am hunting for references detailing ...
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Sheaf of R-modules and modules over compactly supported functions
I'm looking for a reference for the following result:
Let $X$ be a locally compact Hausdorff topological space. let $\mathcal{R}$ be the sheaf of continuous functions with values in $\mathbb{R}$ over ...
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Constructible sheaves on general stratified spaces
I am not an expert in the field, so my question might be rather standard. Let $X$ be a compact metric space. Assume that $X=\cup_{i=1}^NS_i$ is a finite disjoint union of locally closed topological ...
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Equivalence of different cohomology groups
Let $X$ be a topological space (may be assumed to be locally compact). Let $A$ be either a field or $\mathbb{Z}$. One can consider various cohomology groups:
(1) singular cohomology $H_{sing}^*(X,A)$;...
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Homotopy property of constructible sheaves on stratified spaces
Let $X$ be a stratified topological space (in my case $X$ is a compact space presented as a finite union of locally closed topological manifolds of finite dimension (strata) such that the closure of ...
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Can we always extend a vector bundle on an open subset of a ringed space with soft structure sheaf?
Let $(X,\mathcal{O}_X)$ be a ringed space with soft structure sheaf. Moreover let $X$ be paracompact.
Let $U$ be an open subset on $X$ and let $E$ be a finite dimensional vector bundle on $U$, i.e. $...
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Push forward of the constant sheaf for a Serre's fibration
Let $f\colon X\to Y$ be a proper continuous map of topological spaces which is a Serre's fibration. $X$ and $Y$ may be assumed to be locally compact, $Y$ is connected topological manifold of finite ...
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Examples of calculating perverse sheaves on algebraic varieties with easy stratification
I have been learning intersection homology and perverse sheaves in the following way. I started by reading the first $7$ chapters of Kirwan and Woolf's book
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-...
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Application of sheaves theory in ring theory
Is there any text that gives some applications of sheaves theory in commutative ring theory? In the other word, is any results in commutative ring theory that be verified by sheaves method?
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Why do Kashiwara and Schapira require a base ring of finite global dimension?
In the book "Sheaves on Manifolds" by Kashiwara and Schapira, they work always with sheaves of $R$-modules, where $R$ is a ring of finite global dimension.
Why do they do this, what care ...
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What kind of ringed space $X$ has the property that a locally free sheaf is projective in Qcoh$(X)$?
It is well known that for an affine scheme $X$, every finitely generated locally free sheaf $\mathcal{E}$ is projective in the category Qcoh$(X)$. i.e. the functor $\text{Hom}_{\text{Qcoh}(X)}(\...
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Serre's Theorem for Coherent Sheaves
I recently heard a discussion about a certain of Serre which reconstructs the category of coherent sheaves of a variety $V$ as the category of modules over the homogeneous space of $V$ modulo modules ...
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A bit of history of Verdier duality
I was wondering who originated the presentation of Verdier duality as an equivalence between categories of sheaves and cosheaves ?
I learnt it reading Jacob Lurie's Higher Algebra and Justin Curry's ...
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Associating a principal bundle to a torsor
In Introduction to the language of stacks and gerbes, Moerdijk defines a torsor to be a sheaf $\mathcal{S}$ on $X$ with a freely transitive left-action of a sheaf of groups $\mathcal{G}$, such that $...
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Is there a name for a "rigid" sheaf?
Is there a name for the property of a sheaf $\mathcal F$ such that the restriction maps $\mathcal F(V) \to \mathcal F(U)$ are injective when $V$ is connected and $U$ is nonempty?
In other words, this ...
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Can one construct Freyd-Mitchell's embeddings that respect sheafifications?
For a certain presheaf $P$ with values in an abelian category $A$ satisfying AB5 and its sheafification $S$ (with respect to a small Grothendieck site) I would like to prove: $S(f):S(X)\to S(Y)$ is ...
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Reference request: sheaves on closed sets
I am faced with a context in which the most natural notion of a sheaf $\mathcal F$ is as a functor on the category of compact subsets of a (locally compact Hausdorff) space $X$. Specifically, I say a ...
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Hypercohomology of a complex via Cech cohomology
Let $X$ be a reasonable topological space. If $\mathcal{F}$ is a sheaf of abelian groups then Cech cohomology gives us a method to compute the cohomology groups $H^p(X, \mathcal{F})$ - the main input ...
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Colimits of quasi-coherent sheaves on a ringed space
Recall from the stacks project that a sheaf of modules $F$ on a ringed space $X$ is called quasi-coherent if there is an open covering $\{U_i\}$ such that each $F|_{U_i}$ has a presentation, i.e. is ...
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Tensor product of sheaves separated?
Let $(X, O_X)$ be an arbitrary scheme and $\mathcal{F}$ a presheaf of $O_X$-modules. The presheaf $\mathcal{F}$ is said to be separated if the natural map to it's sheafification $\mathcal{F}^+$ is an ...
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Can one characterize those sheaves which have Hausdorff etale spaces?
Given a sheaf of sets $F$ on a space $X,$ under the equivalence of categories between etale spaces over $X$ and sheaves over $X,$ $F$ is associated to a local homeomorphism $$E\left(F\right) \to X$$ ...
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Where can I find a proof of the de Rham-Weil theorem?
Where can I find a proof of the de Rham-Weil theorem?
Does anyone know?
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Do 'change of coefficients' functors for sheaves commute with the four functors (formalism)?
For a morphism $f$ of varieties over a field of characteristic $\neq l$ I can consider the functors $Rf_*$, $f^\ast$, $f_!$, and $f^!$ both for the corresponding derived categories of 'all' (...
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On inverse images with respect to Zariski-etale topology.
For a variety $X$ I define its Zariski-etale site as follows: the category is the category of etale $X$-schemes, and the coverings are Zariski ones. Note that this topology is more coarse than the ...
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Restriction of a sheaf to an infinitely small neighbourhood of a closed submanifold: how to work with this ind-sheaf?
Let $X$ be a manifold, $i: Z\to X$ is a closed embedding.
For a sheaf $S$ (of abelian groups) on a manifold $X$ and each $\varepsilon>0$ we denote by $Z_\varepsilon$ the set of points of $X$ ...
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What are the easiest cases of base change (for sheaves on sites)?
I have a closed embedding of schemes $i:X'\to X$, and for each of them I consider three Grothendieck topologies for the category of the corresponding (relatively) \'etale schemes: the \'etale one, the ...
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Do inverse images respect flabby sheaves?
Let $i:Y\to X$ be a closed embedding of varieties, and let $S$ be a flabby \'etale (or Nisnevich) sheaf of abelian groups on $X$. Is $i^*S$ flabby also? I am mostly interested in the case when $S=i_{x*...
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