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Categories in which isomorphism of stalks does not imply isomorphism of sheaves
Let $\mathcal{A}$ be a locally small category with colimits of small filtered diagrams.
For the purposes of this question, an $\mathcal{A}$-presheaf on a topological space $X$ is a functor $\Omega (X)^...
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Giraud's axioms imply balanced
I'm stuck on the following. Let $\mathcal{E}$ be a category satisfying the Giraud axioms: namely $\mathcal{E}$
is locally presentable,
has universal colimits,
has disjoint coproducts, and
has ...
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Day Convolution of Sheaves
In Bodil Biering's master's thesis, Conjecture 4.3.3 conjectures that Day convolution of presheaves does not generally preserve sheaf conditions, with an incomplete attempt at a counter-example given. ...
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Grothendieck topoi as a constructive property
This question is inspired by Homotopy type theory, but I believe it can be thought about also in other constructive foundations.
In HoTT the question could be stated as follows:
Given a definition of ...
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When a fully faithful functor from an abelian category to itself will be an equivalence
Let $A$ be an abelian category. Suppose $i:A\to A$ is a fully faithful functor from $A$ to itself. I wonder when the functor will be an equivalence.
If $A$ is a "nice" category, I think $i$ ...
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System of local isos gives system of local epis
Suppose that $W$ is a system of local isomorphisms on a presheaf topos $\mathbf{Pre}(\mathcal{C})$. We say a map in $W$ is a $W$-local isomorphism, and we say that a map of presheaves $f: X \to Y$ is ...
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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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Variation on definition of logical functors avoiding power objects
Without power sets in meta-theory not every Grothendieck topos is an elementary topos, Set is still Grothendieck, but it lacks power objects.
Now I am looking for a definition of a logical functor ...
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Day convolution and sheafification
$\DeclareMathOperator\Psh{Psh}\DeclareMathOperator\Sh{Sh}\newcommand\copower{\mathrm{copower}}$I was looking through Bodil Biering's thesis On the Logic of Bunched Implications - and its relation to ...
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Site structure on smooth fibered manifolds
Let $\mathsf{FB}_{s}$ be the category whose objects are smooth fibered manifolds, and whose morphisms are smooth strong projectable maps. Recall that given fibered manifolds $(\pi:Y\rightarrow X)$ and ...
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Why equaliser of product and terminal object is coproduct?
I’m reading “Sheaves in geometry and logic”, in page 80:
Please refer to [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/INrU0.jpg
It says “…,therefore $FU=\coprod_{x\in U} fx$. The space…”.
So could anyone please explain ...
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Are the injections of a coproduct a cover in the canonical pretopology?
Assume we're in a category $C$ with all pullbacks and finite coproducts.
Recall that the canonical coverage of $C$ is the finest Grothendieck (pre) topology for which all representables are sheaves. A ...
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Relationship between canonical topology on a topos and its site of definition
The canonical (Grothendieck) topology for a category $C$ is the largest (finest) topology such that every representable presheaf over $C$ is a sheaf.
According to First Order Categorical Logic Lemma 1....
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Compatibility of Beck Chevalley condition: sheaves
Given a (not necessarily Cartesian) square of spaces
$$\require{AMScd}\begin{CD}
X @>g>> \overline{X} \\
@VVfV @VV\overline{f}V \\
Y @>\overline{g}>> \overline{Y}
\end{CD}$$
does the ...
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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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not quite the sheaf condition
Let $Sets$ be the category of finite sets and all maps. I have come accross several example of functors $F : Sets^{op} \to Sets$ which satisfy the condition below:
-- There exists an integer $k$ such ...
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Unifying categorical equivalences and dualities for the functors : Gelfand spectrum and Zariski spectrum, Structural sheaf and Continuous sections
I would be very grateful for any references I might be led to, from a categorical point of view for the functors:
$\textsf{Spec}_{\mathscr{Z}\textrm{arisky}}(-)$, related to $\mathcal{O}(-)$, which ...
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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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What is $\text{Hom}(\mathcal{F}\times\mathcal{G}, \mathbb{A}^1)$?
Let $S$ be an affine scheme and let $\text{Aff}(S)$ be the site of affine $S$-schemes. Let $\mathcal{F}$ and $\mathcal{G}$ be a pair of sheaves on $\text{Aff}(S)$, and let $\mathbb{A}^1_S$ be the ...
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"Quasi-coherent" vector spaces in Sch/S
$\DeclareMathOperator\Vec{Vec}\newcommand\Sch{\mathrm{Sch}}\DeclareMathOperator\Hom{Hom}$Let $S$ be a base scheme. Let me write $\Vec(S)$ to denote the category of $\mathbb A_S$-vector space objects ...
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The site and the space
There is a (seemingly simple) statement in the literature on sheaf theory, namely,
If $E$ is the site of opens of a topological space $X$, the notion of sheaf over $X$ coincides with that of sheaf of ...
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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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Subsheaves of Spec K, K a field
$\DeclareMathOperator\Spec{Spec}\newcommand\Ring{\mathrm{Ring}}\newcommand\op{^\text{op}}\DeclareMathOperator\Hom{Hom}\DeclareMathOperator\Sh{Sh}$In the category of schemes the objects of the form $\...
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Does the (Vistoli-)sheafification induce isomorphism?
Given a presheaf, in Angelo Vistoli's 2007 Notes on Grothendieck topologies,
fibered categories
and descent theory
there is a construction of the sheafification (Proof for theorem 2.64).
Note: In ...
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Is the Grothendieck topology equivalent to its Singleton Grothendieck topology?
I'm using the definition of a Grothendieck topology in Angelo Vistoli’s 2007 Notes on Grothendieck topologies,
fibered categories
and descent theory and I found on nLab about superextensive site, that ...
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Joins of (closed) subschemes and Zariski-local Z-functors
$\newcommand\Aff{\mathrm{Aff}}\newcommand\cRing{\mathrm{cRing}}\newcommand\Sch{\mathrm{Sch}}$Equip $\Aff = \cRing^\text{op}$ with the Zariski Grothendieck-topology. There are nested categories:
$$\Aff\...
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Concrete sheaves
On the nLab, given a local $S$-topos $E$, a concrete sheaf is defined as an object that is separated with respect to the local isomorphisms (the morphisms that are inverted by the global sections ...
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Johnstone's Elephant - Lemma C2.1.7 confusion
I don't understand the proof of (ii) in the Johnstone's Elephant:
Lemma 2.1.6 is:
Now consider $\bigcup_{f \in R} f \circ f^*(S)$. This is my notation for the sieve Johnstone references in the proof ...
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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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Why is $1$ not a dense sub-site in a group with the trivial Grothendieck topology?
A friend of mine had the following question while reading the section "C2.2 The topos of sheaves" in "Sketches of an Elephant".
Let $G$ be a group (considered as a category with ...
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Proof without sieves: Equivalent grothendieck topologies have the same sheaves
I'm currently learning about sheaf theory with Angelo Vistoli’s 2007 Notes on Grothendieck topologies,
fibered categories and descent theory. And in page 35, there is the following definition of a ...
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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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Compatibility of pullbacks with an equivalence relation
This question was originally posted last week in Math Stack Exchange (see here).
I'm currently working on the proof of the existence of the sheafification in Angelo Vistoli’s 2007 Notes on ...
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Examples of statements that are valid in every spatial topos
I am looking for statements¹ that, when interpreted in the internal language of a topos, are valid in all spatial toposes (i.e., the topos of sheaves of any topological space) that are not valid in ...
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Is it true that $\operatorname{2-colim}_U \textsf{QCoh}(U) = \textsf{Vect}(K_X)$, as $U$ shrinks to the generic point?
Let $X$ be an integral scheme with function field $K$. If $U\subset X$ is an open subscheme, we may consider the restriction functor
$$\textsf{QCoh}(X) \to \textsf{QCoh}(U).$$
I don't know much about ...
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Does the category of cosheaves have enough projectives?
Given a general topological space $X$ does the category $\mathbf{coShv}(X,\mathbf{Mod}_R)$ have enough projectives ? I know that under some conditions this is true, for example if $X$ is a cell ...
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Homotopy fixed points vs coalgebras
Referring to the last part of this answer https://mathoverflow.net/a/225403/170683, I would like to understand how in the case of a Galois cover $f\colon X\to Y=X/G$ with Galois group $G$ (I guess ...
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Cartesian-closed full subcategory of locally ringed spaces containing smooth manifolds
This coming fall, I will be teaching a course on differential topology to a small group of strong students. In preparation for it, I'm trying to find a category $\mathrm{GDiff}$ with the following ...
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When is a basis of a topological space a Grothendieck pretopology?
Bases of a topological space in point set topology will in general form a coverage on its category of inclusion on open subsets and on its category of inclusion on basic opens, but it takes a bit more ...
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What's the point of a point-free locale?
In [1, example C.1.2.8], a locale $Y$ (dense in another locale
$X$) without any point is given. I fail to understand the point
of such point-less locale - Why can't we identify those as the
trivial ...
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Is there a relation between Gelfand duality and the spectrum of a ring (with its Zariski topology)?
Compare the following two results:
Thm A) Let $A$ be a commutative $C^*$-algebra and let $X$ be its Gelfand spectrum. Gelfand duality says that there's a natural isometric $*$-isomorphism from $A$ to ...
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About the left adjoint of $f^*$
In lots of different cases (Verdier duality, Grothendieck duality, étale cohomology, ...) the very existence of a (right) adjoint to the sheaf functor $f_!$ gives useful information. (I'm going to ...
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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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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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Motivic homotopy categories closed under subobjects and quotients
It is well known that the category $\mathbf{HI}_{\rm Nis}^{\rm tr}(k)$ of $\mathbb{A}^1$-local Nisnevich sheaves with transfers is closed under subobjects and quotients, from the highly nontrivial ...
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About condition for structure sheaf of a scheme being compact object in a category of sheaf of module over X [duplicate]
I found the condition for one direction :
Categorical interpretation of quasi-compact quasi-separated schemes
This article said that if $X$ is quasi compact and quasi separated, $\mathscr{O}_X$ is a ...
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How to model (affine) schemes with a large sketch?
Guitart states in "Toute theorie est algebrique et topologique" as Proposition 17 that the category $\mathbf{Sch}$ of schemes is the category of models of a large mixed sketch. Presumably, ...
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Sheaves on sites given by a (regular) cd-structure
Let $C$ be a category equipped with a Grothendieck topology generated by a cd-structure (see https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/cd-structure or Voevodsky's paper Homotopy theory of simplicial presheaves in ...
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Functorial isomorphisms
$\DeclareMathOperator\Hom{Hom}\DeclareMathOperator\Sh{Sh}\DeclareMathOperator\PSh{PSh}$We know that a presheaf $\mathcal{F}$ on category $ \mathcal{C} $ gives a colimit preasheaf $ \mathcal{F}^{+} $ ...
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