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Dualizing complex of the cone over a manifold
Let $M$ be a smooth (or just topological) closed manifold. Let $C(M)$ denote the cone over $M$, i.e.
$C(M)$ equals to $M\times [0,\infty)$ with $M\times \{0\}$ contracted to a point. The image of $M\...
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Purity of perverse cohomology sheaves
Let $f\colon X\to Y$ be a morphism of projective varieties over a finite field. Let $K$ be a perverse pure sheaf on $X$.
Are the perverse cohomology sheaves of $f_*(K)$ pure?
I am just learning the ...
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Ext sheaves as extension by zero of locally free sheaves
Let $X$ be a complex projective manifold and let $\phi \colon E \hookrightarrow F$ an injection of locally free sheaves. Then we have a sequence of coherent sheaves
$$
0 \to E \to F \to F/E \to 0
$$
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Cartier Divisor generated by Global Sections
Let $X$ be an integer curve of (arithmetic) genus $g=0$. (the arithmetic genus $g$ is defined by $g:= 1 -\chi_k(\mathcal{O}_X)$ where $\mathcal{O}_X$ is the structure sheaf of $X$ and $\chi_k(\mathcal{...
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Extension by zero operation
Suppose you have a closed subset $Z$ of a topological space $X$, and $F$ is a sheaf on $Z$. Then one can consider the extension by zero sheaf $F^X$ on $X$.
What are some examples and situations which ...
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Dual of slope semistable vector bundle on higher dimensional variety
Recall the definition of slope semistability, taken from section 1.2 of Huybrechts and Lehn's "Geometry of Moduli Spaces of Sheaves" book. Let $X$ be a projective $\mathbb{C}$-scheme and $E \...
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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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Local extension of holomorphic vector fields
Let $X$ be an open complex manifold, e.g., the complement of a simple normal crossing divisor $D$ in a (smooth) projective manifold $M$. Let $T^{1,0}X$ be the holomorphic tangent bundle of $X$. Let $K ...
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Example of an Algebraic Space ("false" affine line with different tangents at origin)
I have a question about the following example from the Algebraic spaces and quotients by equivalence relation of schemes by Roy Mikael Skjelnes (page 12)
of a presheaf quotient, which
has associated ...
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On the definition of a principal ideal sheaf
In his book Algebraic Geometry and Arithmetic Curves Qing Liu claims in Exercise 3.4, page 56, the following for a scheme $X$ and a global function $f\in \mathcal O_X(X)$:
"The map $U\mapsto f\...
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Defining a sheaf from its values on a prebase (plus little more structure)
Let $X$ be a topological space and $\mathcal{B}$ a base of the topology (i.e. it is closed under intersection and every open set is the union of elements from $\mathcal{B}$). Any functor from $\...
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Exercise on "locality" in topos theory
Let $\mathcal E=\mathsf{Sh}(\mathsf C,J)$. Let $A\rightarrowtail \Omega$ be a fixed subobject. For each $X$ in $\mathcal E$, define $T_A(X)$ to be a set of subobjects of $X$ as follows. $U\...
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what's the cohomological dimension of a Stein space?
I want to know the "cohomological dimension" of a Stein space.
I know that:
for $X$ differential manifold and for every sheaf $F$ of abelian
groups, I have $H_c^j(X,F)=H^j(X,F)=0$ for $j>...
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smooth manifold vs. exceptional inverse image
A well-known theorem in topology says that for a smooth manifold $M$ of dimension $n$ the map $f: M \rightarrow point$ satisfies
$$f^! \mathbf R = \mathbf R[n]$$
Here $\mathbf R$ is the constant sheaf....
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Does anyone understand the notation in this equation for the sheafification of a presheaf on a site?
Hi there, I'm trying to sheafify a constant presheaf on a site, I went to http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/sheafification, but can't understand the notation in the equation for W (in the proof for ...
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Are vector bundles acyclic for $\Gamma_c$?
Let $X$ be a paracompact topological space or a manifold (which is not a particular case since the structure sheaves are different). It is well-known that vector bundles (more generally, $\mathcal{O}...
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Locally free sheaves and vector bundles over smooth connected projective curve
Let $X$ be a connected smooth projective curve over an algebraically closed field $K$. Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a locally free sheaf on $X$ and $\mathcal{E}$ a subsheaf of $\mathcal{F}$, which is again ...
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Cohomology of tangent sheaf of a hypersurface
Let $X\subset\mathbb{P}^n$ be an irreducible and reduced hypersurface of degree $d$. How can one explicitly compute the dimension of the vector spaces $H^0(X,T_X),H^1(X,T_X),H^2(X,T_X)$? Here $T_X$ is ...
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Leray Spectral Sequence
Let $f:X\to Y$ be a smooth map between paracompact differential manifolds $X$ and $Y$.
Let $U$ be an open and dense subset of $Y$. For any $y\in U$, let $f^{-1}(y)=F$
be a generic fiber that is a ...
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Inclusion of logarithmic de-Rham complex into differentials
Let $X$ be a complex manifold and $D$ a normal crossing divisor. Let $U = X - D$ and $j: U \rightarrow X$ the natural map. Voisen observes that there is a natural inclusion $$\Omega^k_X(\log D) \...
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How does torsion behave under the direct image functor?
Assume we have a finite morphism $f: X\rightarrow Y$ of smooth projective varieties of degree $d$ over $k=\mathbb{C}$. Then $f_{*}$ induces an equivalence between the categoy of coherent $O_X$-modules ...
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What is the geometric description of the set of isomorphism class of $G$-torsors over a site $C$?
Let $X$ be a topological space and $G$ be a topological group. Let $\tilde{G}$ be the sheaf of groups defined by the sheaf of sections of the product $G$ bundle $ \pi_1:X\times G \rightarrow X $.
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Pushforward in Compactly Supported Cohomology
Suppose $X,Y$ are locally compact Hausdorff spaces and $f:X\to Y$ is a topological submersion of relative dimension $n$. By this we mean that for all points $x\in X$, there exists an open neighborhood ...
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On sections into Banach bundles over a compact manifold
Let $M$ be a smooth, compact manifold and $\xi: \mathcal B \to M$ a smooth complex Banach bundle over $M$. Here, smooth is understood to be in the Fréchet-sense. Further, let $p: V \to M$ be an ...
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Is the restriction of a simple sheaf of modules simple?
Let $X$ be a topological space, $A$ a sheaf of (unital and associative but not necessarily commutative) rings on $X$. Suppose $M$ is a simple quasicoherent $A$-module and $U$ an open subset of $X$. Is ...
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ample subsheaf contained in the tangent bundle of projective space
Let $\mathcal F$ be an ample subsheaf of $T_{\mathbb P^n}$. Is it actually locally free? If not, is there a counterexample?
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If presheaf is zero on a covering is the sheaf zero?
Let $C$ be a site and $F$ an abelian presheaf on $C$. Suppose that for each object $U$ in $C$ there is a covering $\{ U_i\to U \}$ such that $F(U_i)=0$. Is it true that $F^{sh}=0$?
This should be ...
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Equivariant Derived Category
If $G$ is an connected unipotent group over $k$,and $X$ a scheme of finite type over $k$, (an algebraic closed field of positive characteristic) then we can define the bounded derived categorie of ...
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Spectral sequences in Hypercohomology of sheaves
Alright, here I go again, don't know if I'm missing something here but let $X$ be a topological space and let $F^{\bullet}$ be a cochain complex of sheaves, I want to compute the cohomology of this ...
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Orientation Sheaf and Double Cover
The orientation sheaf of an $n$-manifold $M$ is $\mathcal{O}_n=Sheaf(U\mapsto H_n(M,M-U;\mathbb{Z}))$, with stalks given by $(\mathcal{O}_n)_x = lim H_n(M,M-U)=H_n(M,M-x)=\mathbb{Z}$ (the limit is ...
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How to find the smallest flabby sheaf containing a given sheaf?
None of the spaces $C^k(\mathbb{R}^n)$, with $0 \leq k \leq \infty$, is a flabby sheaf. However, they are respectively contained in the smallest flabby sheaves $C^k_{nd} (\mathbb{R}^n)$ of functions $...
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existence of a coherent sheaf
I am doing algebraic geometry. My question is the following: Here $X=\mathbb{A}^1-0$, $\mathbb{A}^1 = Spec A[t]$, $A$ is a commutative, noetherian ring with unity, consider $\mathcal{O}_{Spec A}$ as $\...
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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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Calculate stalk of etale derived pushforward sheaf (Milne's LEC)
Assume $X=\operatorname{Spec}(A)$ is connected and normal (especially integral), and let $g:\eta \hookrightarrow X$ be the inclusion of the generic point of $X$. In Milne's LEC script on Etale ...
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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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Sheaves on families of genus 2 curves in Hassett's paper
Sorry for a maybe stupid long question but I'm reading the paper "Classical and minimal models of the moduli space of curves of genus two" by Brendan Hassett and I'm not able to unravel a ...
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Some facts about sheafification functor on étale site
I'm studying the book Etale cohomology and the Weil conjecture by Freitag, Kiehl and I have some questions on the subchapter introducing the machinery associating to an étale presheaf
a sheaf (that is ...
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What are the sections of an ideal sheaf on a scheme?
Suppose $X$ is a scheme and $f_1,...,f_n\in \Gamma(X,\mathcal O)$ are global sections.
One often reads about the ideal sheaf $\mathcal I=\mathcal (f_1,...,f_n)\subset \mathcal O$, but I have never ...
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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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Nearby cycle functor for a family of stable curves
Let $B$ be a smooth algebraic curve over $\mathbb{C}$ (or rather a germ of it at a point $b\in B$). Let $f\colon E\to B$ be a proper flat family of stable curves with smooth generic fiber. Assume that ...
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global sections of higher direct images of étale sheaves
Is there a useful criterion for when $\Gamma(X, R^qf_*F) = H^q(X',F)$, $f: X' \to X$, $F$ an étale sheaf on $X'$?
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On morphisms to projective space arising from a linear system
Context: This question arose as I was reading the proof of Application 6.1 in Mumford's Abelian Varieties. However, I have extracted all of the relevant information below so this question should ...
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Carving out subsheaves of local hom-sheaves of stacks of categories
Recall from my previous question the definition of a local hom-sheaf of a stack of categories. I am interested in stacks of categories such that the underlying stack of groupoids is a moduli stack.
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Is restricting the support of an Artinian sheaf a closed condition?
Given a projective surface $S$, and a smooth projective curve $C\subset S$ over $\mathbb{C}$. Furthermore we have a locally free sheaf $E$ of rank $r$ on $S$.
Then for any $l\geq 1$, the projective ...
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vanishing theorems
I would be glad to know about possible generalizations of the following results:
1) (Grothendieck) Let $X$ be a noetherian topological space of dimension $n$. Then for all $i>n$ and all sheaves of ...
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Are there any criteria for a presheaf which is an etale sheaf to be a sheaf in the fppf topology?
I am happy to hear answers to variants too. For instance, my situation I actually have a sheaf in the smooth topology.
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Hypersheaves vs derived category of sheaves
This question arose from Peter Scholze's notes on six functor formalisms, specifically lecture VII in the proof of proposition 7.1.
We fix a LCH space $X$ and consider the functor $D(\mathrm{Ab}(X)) \...
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Understanding spaces is the same as understanding (sheaves of) functions on the space
I'm trying to understand Ravi Vakil's FOAG. In chapter 2 it is written:
[...] understanding spaces is the same as understanding (sheaves of) functions on the spaces, and
understanding vector bundles (...
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Higher direct image with compact support of a constant sheaf
Let $f: X \to Y$ be a locally trivial fibration between locally compact spaces with fiber $F$. It is well known that for a constant sheaf $A_X$ on $X$, the higher direct images $R^n f_* A_X$ are ...
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How to compute cup product of derived limits / presheaf cohomology
I have a finite category $\mathcal{C}$, along with a functor $F \colon \mathcal{C}^{\mathrm{op}} \to \mathsf{GradedCommRings}$. If $F_j$ is $j$-th graded piece of $F$, then I write $H^i(\mathcal{C},...
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