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Are these comparison morphisms between Čech and Grothendieck cohomology the same?
For better or for worse, there is more than one approach to comparing Čech cohomology $\smash{\check{H}}^\bullet(\mathfrak{U},X;\mathscr{F})$ of a sheaf $\mathscr{F}$ on a space $X$ w.r.t the cover $\...
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intuition about perverse sheaves
firstly, I would know if my very basic intuition on perverse sheaves is correct .
secondly, I would have some clarification in what perverse sheaves behaves better than regular sheaves .
my intuition ...
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Using higher topos theory to study Cech cohomology
It seems to me that many classical statements about Cech cohomology should without much effort follow from Lurie's HTT, but I am struggling to fill out the details. I want to show that, given an ...
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In terms of sheaf cohomology, what does Bott & Tu's relative de Rham cohomology $H^\bullet(f)$ compute for $f: S \to M$ a smooth map?
Given a map $f: S \to M$ of smooth manifolds, Bott & Tu define on page 78 a complex by $\Omega^q(f)=\Omega^q(M) \oplus \Omega^{q-1}(S)$ and $d(\omega, \theta)=(d\omega, f^*\omega - d\theta)$ where ...
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Trying to understand "Shtukas"
I'm studying Goss' Basic structures of function field Arithmetic, chapter 6 about Shtukas. I'm trying to understand some details about some concepts. This chapter is based on a Mumford's paper An ...
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Can we use sheaf cohomology to say anything interesting for vector bundles with non-flat connections?
Given a vector bundle $E \to M$ with connection $\nabla$, we get a twisted de Rham sequence using the exterior covariant derivative:
$$0 \to \mathcal{E} \xrightarrow{d^\nabla} \Omega^1_M \otimes \...
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Dualizing complex of the product of two locally compact spaces
Hello!
In the setting of locally compact Hausdorff spaces, I would like to understand the relation between the exterior product ${\mathbb D}_X\boxtimes{\mathbb D}_Y$ of the dualizing complexes of two ...
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What is the geometric intuition for the sheaf-theoretic terms "soft", "fine", and "flabby"?
The sheaf-theoretic terms "soft", "flabby", and "fine" are of an obviously geometric character, and suggest opposition with "hard", "rigid", and "coarse" sheaves (I'm just inventing these terms here).
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Generalities on sheaves - Where can I find the technology that can make this "proof" of Atiyah duality precise?
Fix $R$ an $E_{\infty}$ ring spectrum which admits a "six functor formalism" over a suitable class of spaces (by which I mean a context in which what I'm about to say can be made correct).
Let $X$ ...
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Under what generality are the compactly supported singular and sheaf cohomologies equal?
Edit: I have since resolved my question.
If X is locally compact Hausdorff in addition to being cohomologically locally contractible with coefficients in $A$ - eg it is a manifold or an open subset of ...
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Is the derived category of sheaves localised at pointwise homotopy equivalences locally small?
In order to define the cup and cross products in sheaf cohomology, Iversen makes computations in an intermediate derived category. If $K(X;k)$ is the triangulated category of cochain complexes of ...
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Is the right adjoint to presheaf direct image interesting?
Let $X\overset{f}{\to}Y$
be a continuous map. It induces on presheaves a classical adjunction inverse image ⊣ direct image. However, the direct image functor has a further right adjoint, defined by ...
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What's the point of fine sheaves? (As opposed to soft ones)
Why do people care to define fine sheaves? What useful property do they have for which softness is not sufficient?
some observations (because I feel guilty about a the one-line question):
The point ...
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Sheaves on Rectifiable Sets
Basic question: are there (co)homological or sheaf-based tools which might be useful in geometric measure theory?
Background: The jumping off point here is a simple analogy - geometric measure ...
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Coherent cohomological dimension and affine morphisms
For simplicity, all varieties in this question are quasiprojective varieties over an algebraically closed field of characteristic $0$.
The coherent cohomological dimension $cd(X)$ of a variety $X$ is ...
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What is the filtration in Leray's spectral sequence?
Leray's theory of spectral sequences considers a continuous map $f : X \to Y$ between topological spaces. The statement is that there exists a filtration
$$H^n(X,k) = F^0H^n(X,k) \supseteq ... \...
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Does the de Rham complex induce a functorial soft resolution of the category of cochain complexes of sheaves of vector spaces on a smooth manifold?
I apologize in advance if this is pretty straightforward; I'm a differential geometer and physicist by training so my homological algebra and homotopy theory are a bit weak.
Question: Let $M$ be a ...
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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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Sheaf Cohomology on Zariski-Riemann Spaces
Can sheaf cohomology on the Zariski-Riemann spaces give some sort of classification for field extensions (even just for function fields)? If not, are there any significant or useful results (e.g. for ...
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Resolution of constant sheaf by $L^2$ function sheaves
Let $X$ be a compact Hausdorff space equipped with a Radon measure of full support.
Then $U\mapsto L^2(U)$ is a fine sheaf, hence can be taken for a first step in an acyclic resolution of the constant ...
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Understanding a step in proof of sheaf version Verdier duality
Warning: This question is likely low-level for MathOverflow. My apology that there is almost surely something basic I miss.
So all proofs I can find factors through a particular statement, which goes ...
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Question on de Rham complex with distributional coefficients
Let $X$ be a smooth manifold (usually assumed to be paracompact). Let us denote by $\underline{\Omega}^{p,-\infty}_X$ the sheaf of real valued $p$-forms with distributional coefficients in the ...
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Convolution of DQ-Modules
On page 92 of Deformation Quantization Modules Kashiwara and Schapira define two different convolution products for DQ-modules that differ by whether one uses $Rp_{13*}$ or $Rp_{13!}$ to push forward....
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Hypercovers with sieves
Consider a covering family $\{Y_i \to X\}$ and the induced sieve $R \subseteq X$, the subpresheaf of all maps to $X$ that factor through some $Y_i$. The family gives me an induced Cech nerve $C_\...
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Canonical map in the direct image of $\mathscr{D}_X$
Let $f : X \to Y$ be a proper holomorphic map between holomorphic manifolds. We work with $\mathscr{D}$-modules. Consider the transfer bi-modules $\mathscr{D}_{Y\leftarrow X}.$ Can one find a ...
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Question about the precise statement of Leray spectral sequences and a simple example
On Bott's paper "Homogeneous vector bundles" there is the following statement of Leray spectral sequence:
Let $X$ and $Y$ be paracompact and locally compact spaces and $f : Y \to X$ be a proper map....
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Equivalence of cohomology with compact support
Let $𝑋$ be a connected CW complex, $𝜌:\pi_1(𝑋)→\mathrm{Aut}(G)$ a representation, and $G_\rho$ the associated sheaf. It follows from here, that the following two cohomologies are isomorphic.
(1)The ...
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Defineing a Sheaf of rings over a topological space
Let $X$ be a topological space and let $R$ be a commutative ring with $1$ such that for each $x\in X$ there exists a multiplicatively closed subset $S_x$ of $R$ such that for each $a\in R$ if $\frac{a}...
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Maps between Leray spectral sequences
Let $f_1 : X_1 \to Y_1$ and $f_2 : X_2 \to Y_2$ be two continuous maps between topological spaces. Suppose that there exists a commutative diagram of singular cohomology groups (say with coefficients ...
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Local cohomology with supports in a constructible set
Let $X$ be a topological space (I'm interested in the case of $X$ being a complex algebraic variety with the Zariski topology) and $Z$ a constructible subset (i.e. a finite union of locally closed ...
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Cohomology and quotients for the canonical topology
Recall that for any category $\mathcal C$, there is a unique finest topology, the canonical topology on $\mathcal C$ for which all representable functors are sheaves. I am interested in the example $\...
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Cech cohomology.
Let us consider the scheme $X$ and the coherent sheaf $\cal F$ on it. We consider finitely many affine open covers $U_{\lambda}$ with $\lambda \in \Lambda$. When I calculate Cech cohomology with $U_{\...
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Homeomorphic endomorphism of schemes inducing equivalence of sheaves
Let $F: X \to X$ to be an endomorphism of scheme $X$, which is additionally assumed to induce an universal homeomorphism on the underlying topological space $| X|$. Then it is known that this induces ...
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Local freeness of dualizing sheaf
I am reading the dualizing sheaf and duality theorems from Hartshorne’s algebraic geometry book. I am wondering about the following.
When does the dualizing sheaf of a projective scheme is an locally ...
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Artin-Winters proof of semi-stable reduction theorem: details
I've been reading through Artin-Winters proof of the semi-stable reduction theorem (Degenerate fibers and stable reduction of curves) and found myself confused about the following detail—
Let $\...
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Global section of pullback of an ideal sheaf
For a local ring $R$ with maximal ideal $\mathfrak{m}\subset R$ and residue field $\kappa$, and a flat morphism $f\colon X\rightarrow \mathrm{Spec} R$ of schemes, we consider the short exact sequence ...
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$L^r_M = i_* \circ \hat{L}^{r-1}_M \circ i^*$ by the projection formula and the Poincare duality
This is a question arising when I am reading
M. A. A. de Cataldo, L. Migliorini - The Hard Lefschetz Theorem and the topology of semismall maps, Ann. sci. École Norm. Sup., Serie 4 35 (2002) 759-772.
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A sheaf for factorization
Let $R$ be a commutative ring with $1$ and let $X$ be the space of connected componens of $Spec (R) $ with Zariski topology ( The boolean spectrum of $R $ )and let for each $x\in X$ there exists a ...
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Continuous maps vs filtrations construction of the Leray spectral sequence
The Leray spectral sequence of a continuous map $f : X \to Y$ between two topological spaces can be constructed, as far as I understand, in two ways, one very general, and the other a bit more ...
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maps between two Leray spectral sequences based on maps on cochain complexes
Let $f_1:X_1 \to Y_1$ and $f_2:X_2 \to Y_2$ be two continuous maps between topological spaces. I am trying to understand under what condition there could be a map relating the Leray spectral sequences ...
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Sheaves and isomorphisms with chain complex of singular chains (Sheaf Theory, Bredon)
Let $\Delta_{\ast}(X,A)$ (resp. $\Delta_{\ast}^c(X,A)$) be the chain complex of locally finite (resp. finite) singular chains of $X$ modulo those chains in $A$.
How to show that the homomorphism of ...
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Canonicity of Čech cohomology
For a topological space $X$, consider the Leray covering $U_\lambda$ (i.e. $\cap U_\lambda$ is sufficiently fine, e.g. affine for Zariski topology) of $X$.
For a sheaf $F$ on $X,$ the cohomology $H^...
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Equivariant Sheaves, Local system
Let $(G,m)$ be a group scheme unipotent, and $L$ a local system of rank 1 on $G$ such that:
$m^*(L) \simeq L \boxtimes L $.
Then why is $L$ an equivariant sheaf on $G$ with the action the ...
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How can one compute the cohomology of $i'^*C$, for $i':\mathbb{A}^{N-1}\setminus \{0\}\to \mathbb{A}^{N}\setminus \{0\} $?
For an (etale or 'topological', constructible bounded) complex of sheaves $C$ on $X'=\mathbb{A}^{N}\setminus \{0\} $, $i'$ being the embedding $\mathbb{A}^{N-1}\setminus \{0\}\to \mathbb{A}^{N}\...
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why is the local field Q_l not an etale sheaf over a scheme X?
I would like to know the reason why the local field Q_l is not an etale sheaf over a scheme X while its ring of integers Z_l can be regarded as a constant etale sheaf?
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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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How can I calculate $\chi(\mathscr{O}(P))$
Let be X a reduced and irreducible curve over a field $L_0$. Let $L$ an extension of $L_0$ and set
\begin{gather*}
\overline{X}=L \otimes X.
\end{gather*}
Assume $\overline{X}$ also irreducible. Now, ...
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Lifting of quadrics containing hyperplane section for projectively normal curves
Let $C \subset \mathbb{P}^r$ be a projective curve (over $k=\mathbb{C}$), smooth, irreducible and nondegenerate of degree $d$, ie the embedding line bundle $\mathcal{O}_C(1)=(\mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{P}^r}...
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Why does the associated sheaf vanish?
I am learning local cohomology from Hartshorne’s book Local Cohomology.
My question is about understanding a line in the proof of proposition 1.11 in this book.
The set-up for proposition 1.11 is that ...
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Singular cohomology to cohomology of quasi-coherent sheaf
Let $X$ be a projective nonsingular variety (integral Noetherian scheme of finite type that is proper over a field $k=\overline{k}$ such that $\Omega^1_X$ is locally free). Suppose one knows the ...
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