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Geometric interpretation of sheaf cohomology
Please forgive me for the informal and naïve nature of my question, as I am a beginner in algebraic geometry.
In the famous book by Hartshorne, sheaf cohomology is defined as a certain derived functor....
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Is the ideal product presheaf a sheaf? Do we have any reasons to believe it will be / it won't?
My question is about one of those several concepts in algebraic geometry who everybody uses but nobody defines or introduces properly.
Given a ringed space $(X,\mathcal{O}_X)$ and ideal sheaves $\...
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Sheaves as full reflective subcategories
Hello everyone.
My question is concerned with the following statement.
"Having a grothendieck topology on a category C is equivalent to having a full reflective subcategory Sh(C) in the category PSh(...
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Why is there no stack of $\ell$-adic sheaves on a curve?
One of the main players in the categorical geometric langlands correspondence is the moduli stack of rank n integrable connections on a complex curve. The reason for considering such objects is that ...
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Taking the category of sheaves is symmetric monoidal
Let $M$ and $N$ be topological spaces.
Let $\operatorname{Sh}(M)$ denote the presentable $\infty$-category of space-valued sheaves on $M$.
It seems to me that the equivalence
$$\operatorname{Sh}(M) \...
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Differential forms as a sheaf on the site of all manifolds vs. sheaf on an individual manifold
The de Rham complex can be viewed as a sheaf $\Omega$ on the entire site $\mathsf{Man}$ of smooth manifolds via the usual pullback of differential forms $(f: M \to N) \mapsto (f^*: \Omega(N) \to \...
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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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Representable Presheaf
I have a very quick question. Is there an easy example of a representable presheaf on a site that is not a sheaf? This certainly can't happen on a small FPPF site so I would expect a counterexample to ...
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Sites which are stacks over themselves
A site C with pullbacks is subcanonical (all representable presheaves are sheaves) if and only if its codomain fibration $Arr(C) \to C$ is a prestack (all hom-presheaves are sheaves). Is there a ...
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When does the sheaf cohomology of a topological space vanish?
The question is in the title. A more precise formulation is:
Let $X$ be a topological space. When does $H^i(X,F) = 0$ for all $i > 0$ and all abelian sheaves $F$ on $X$?
The obvious example is a ...
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Is there a way to "puncture" a topos?
Let $E$ be a (Grothendieck) topos, e.g. $E = \text{Sh}(X)$ for a topological space $X$. And let $p = (p^*, p_*):\text{Set}\to E$ be a point of $E$, is there a way to "puncture" $E$ in some sense? By "...
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Is every endomorphism of the sheaf of holomorphic functions on a disk a differential operator?
Let $D= \{z\in \mathbb{C}:|z| < 1\}$ be the unit disk. And consider the sheaf of holomorphic functions $\mathcal{O}_{D}$.
Question (?) : Is there a sheaf endomorphisms $\phi : \mathcal{O}_D \to \...
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Polylogarithm sheaves
In many different places, I could find the notion on ''(poly)logarithm sheaves''. As is indicated in the name of it, I guess that it should have something to do with (poly)logarithm function: $\mathrm{...
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What is the total space of a stack after all?
From my general experience I think for myself of what follows as some kind of taboo question for some reason: in my imagination, everybody wants an answer to this but somehow thinks it shall not be ...
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How do the direct and inverse image sheaf functors interact with homotopy?
This is a crosspost of this MSE question.
The direct image sheaf functor $f_\ast$ and inverse image sheaf functor $f^\ast$ (here I mean the usual inverse image sheaf functor often denoted by $f^{-1}$)...
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Isbell duality between algebras and sheaves
nLab says on Isbell duality, the following:
A general abstract adjunction
$(\mathcal{O} \dashv \operatorname{Spec}) : \mathrm{CoPresheaves} \leftrightarrows \mathrm{Presheaves}$
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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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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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Does the category of $G$-equivariant sheaves have enough injectives?
The question is related to this one.
Let $k$ be a field and $X$ be a topological space. We consider Sh$(X)$, the category of sheaves of $k$-vector spaces on $X$.
Let $G$ be a topological group which ...
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Differential Forms in Infinite Dimensions
In Kriegl/Michor's book "The convenient setting of global analysis", they define the space of differential $k$-forms on a possibly infinite-dimensional manifold $M$ as the space of smooth sections of ...
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Applications of sheaf theory to the computation of invariants of LS-category type
I would like to know if sheaf theory can be applied to a particular class of questions in topology.
The Schwarz genus (also known as sectional category) of a continuous map $p\colon\thinspace E\to ...
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Is the direct image of a constant sheaf a constant sheaf?
Is the direct image of a constant sheaf a constant sheaf? I'm not an expert on sheaf theory and can't find this anywhere
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Relative version of sheaf cohomology?
Is there a relative version of sheaf cohomology?
EDIT: I rather mean the cohomology of pairs.
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Does inclusion from n-stacks into (n+1)-stacks preserve the sheaf condition?
I'm going to describe two situations that seem to contradict each other, and I'm interested to know precisely what's wrong with this reasoning.
Let $M$ be a manifold, and consider the presheaf $C^*(-,...
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Splitting of exact triangles in derived category
Let $A\to B\to C\to A[1]$ be a distinguished triangle in a (bounded below) derived category of an abelian category.
Is there a necessary and sufficient condition that it splits, namely $B\simeq A\...
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Motivation for equivariant sheaves?
Hello everyone;
i'm looking for a motivation for equivariant sheaves (see http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/equivariant+sheaf) ~ Why are we interested in them?
More explicitely: Can I think of G-...
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Kozsul resolution of $\mathcal{O}_X$
Let $i: X \hookrightarrow Y$ be a closed embedding of smooth algebraic varieties. In the book D-modules, perverse sheaves and representation theory the authors say that there exists a locally free ...
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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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The (co)tangent sheaf of a topological space
Let $X$ be a topological space (assume additional assumptions if needed) and denote by $\mathcal O _X$ its sheaf of $\Bbbk$-valued continuous functions where $\Bbbk$ is $\mathbb{R}$ or $\mathbb{C}$ ...
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Is there a description of sheaf cohomology in algebraic-topological terms?
Is there a description of of sheaf cohomology for the sheaf of sections of a continuous function in terms of common constructions in Algebraic Topology?
In more detail: Any sheaf on a space X can be ...
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Stable homotopy category of complexes of sheaves
Let $X$ be an Hausdorff space, which is locally compact and locally connected. Let $R$ be a commutative and unitary ring and let $D(X)$ be the derived category of unbounded complexes of sheaves of $R$-...
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Results in “generalised smooth spaces” that did not hold in the case of smooth manifolds
Consider the category of smooth manifolds $\text{Man}$. I quote from n-lab page:
Manifolds are fantastic spaces. It’s a pity that there aren’t more of them.
I understand that this category $\text{...
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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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Homotopical descent information contained in the Dwyer-Kan function complexes of a presheaf category?
Recall that the category of sheaves on some site $C$ equipped with a grothendieck topology $\tau$ is equivalent to the localization of the category of presheaves $W^{-1}Psh(C)$ at $W$ where $W$ is the ...
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Automorphisms of constant sheaves
Let E be a Grothendieck topos, such as the category of sheaves of sets on a topological space. Then there is a unique geometric morphism $(\Delta \dashv \Gamma)\colon E\to \mathrm{Set}$, where $\...
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surjective morphism of schemes or epimorphism of sheaves?
I have a technical question coming from reading Toen's master course on stacks.
If we view schemes as locally ringed spaces then there we could define a morphism to be surjective if it the underlying ...
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G-topological spaces and locales
Consider the following generalization of topological spaces:
Definition: Let $X$ be a set. A G-topology on $X$ is given by certain distinguished subsets $U \subset X$, called admissible open subsets, ...
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W-types and inverse image functor
All sheaf topoi have W-types and in fact there's an explicit construction given by Benno van den Berg & Ieke Moerdijk, but the construction is quite involved.
I would like to know whether the ...
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When do sheaves which are constant along the fibers come from the base?
Assume we are given a map $f: X \rightarrow Y$ between topological spaces which is open, surjective and has (pathwise) connected fibers. Consider categories $\text{Sh}(X)$, $\text{Sh}(Y)$ of sheaves (...
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When are free modules on sheaves of sets quasicoherent?
This question was previously asked over at math.SE.
Let $X$ be a scheme. Let $\mathcal{E}$ be a sheaf of sets on $X$. Then we can define $\mathcal{O}_X\langle\mathcal{E}\rangle$, the free module over ...
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How to view $\textbf{Sh}(\textbf{CartSp})/X$ as "space" in its own right, étale machinery from abstract nonsense perspective for smooth manifolds
Let $\textbf{CartSp}$ be the category of spaces of the from $\mathbb{R}^n$ with smooth maps between them. This is a site with respect to (differentially) good open covers, so consider the Grothendieck ...
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Sheaf cohomology of non-paracompact manifolds (e.g. the long line)
I have long heard that manifolds are "affine". If we allow non-paracompact manifolds, then this seems to fail, since as explained in Dmitri Pavlov's answer, the Serre–Swan theorem fails. I ...
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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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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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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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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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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 does the machinery of left-exact comonads generalize from sheaves to stacks?
Suppose that we have two Grothendieck sites, their associated sheaves $\mathcal{E}=\rm{Sh}(\bf{C},J)$ and $\mathcal{F}=\rm{Sh}(\bf{D},K)$ and a geometric surjection $f:\mathcal{E}\to\mathcal{F}$. This ...
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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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Topologies (and sheaves) on Cat and CAT
I've been wondering lately what sort of Grothendieck (pre)topologies there are on $Cat$ (the category of small categories) and $CAT$ (the v. large category of large categories - to forestall criticism ...
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