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Algebraic varieties, stacks, sheaves, schemes, moduli spaces, complex geometry, quantum cohomology.

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What is the theory of local rings and local ring homomorphisms?

It is well-known that the category of local rings and ring homomorphisms admits an axiomatisation in coherent logic. Explicitly, it is the coherent theory over the signature $0, 1, -, +, \times$ with …
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Can the Category of Schemes be Concretized?

Apparently, there is an abstract nonsense argument that shows $\mathbf{Sch}$ is concretisable. Here is a hands-on proof. We define $U_0 : \mathbf{Sch} \to \mathbf{Set}$ to be the functor that sends …
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Definition of ind-schemes

There is in fact no difference between the two definitions if you take your site to be the category of affine schemes – while it is true that the forgetful functor from sheaves to presheaves does not …
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Localic or topos-theoretic definition of $\operatorname{Spec}$

This is ultimately the same construction as the one Simon Henry describes, but you might like the different perspective. Definition. Let $A$ be a commutative rig and let $L$ be a distributive lattice. …
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Direct and inverse image terminology

There is a precise, almost literal, sense in which $f^* : \textbf{Sh} (Y) \to \textbf{Sh} (X)$ generalises the inverse image as defined in elementary set theory. Observe that open subspaces $V \subset …
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What is descent data (of higher categories), conceptually?

The category of descent data is indeed the homotopy limit of your cosimplicial diagram. In the case where $\mathcal{F}$ actually is fibred in categories (and not higher categories), then you can trunc …
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Subsheaves of Spec K, K a field

There is no hope for this in any subcanonical topology coarser than the fppf topology, or more generally, any subcanonical topology in which morphisms $\operatorname{Spec} C \to \operatorname{Spec} K$ …
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Subobject classifier for sheaves on large sites with WISC

To answer your question directly, WISC does not imply the existence of subobject classifiers. Notice that when there are only trivial covers, WISC is trivially satisfied, so it suffices to find a cate …
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Flat + locally of finite presentation + monomorphism = open immersion

It is known that the following are equivalent for an epimorphism $A \to B$ in $\mathbf{CRing}$: Let $S$ be the set of elements $a \in A$ such that $A [a^{-1}] \to B [a^{-1}]$ is an isomorphism. Then …
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About the canonical morphism from $f^{*}f_{*}f^{*}F$ to $f^{*}F$

In short: always. Indeed, given a functor $F : \mathcal{C} \to \mathcal{D}$ left adjoint to $G : \mathcal{D} \to \mathcal{C}$, the triangle identities say that the composites of the canonical morphis …
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Equivariant fibre product

This is true for abstract nonsense reasons. If $G$ is a group object in a category $\mathcal{C}$, then $G \times S$ is a group object in the slice category $\mathcal{C}_{/ S}$, and there is a natural …
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Closure of the product of subfunctors

This is not true even for affine schemes. Let $k = \mathbb{Z}$, let $X = \operatorname{Spec} \mathbb{Z}$, let $Y = \operatorname{Spec} \mathbb{F}_p$, and let $Z \cong \operatorname{Spec} \mathbb{Z} [ …
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Induced topology on site + Reconstructing global sections of a scheme (Orlov)

First things first: we need a more tractable definition of "continuous". Let $\mathcal{C}$ and $\mathcal{D}$ be categories, let $J$ be a Grothendieck topology on $\mathcal{C}$, and let $K$ be a Gr …
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Grothendieck construction on fibred categories/stacks

If your codomain is a (2, 1)-category then lax colimits are the same as pseudocolimits, which are a strict kind of homotopy colimit. For the very special case of diagrams over a one-object groupoid, t …
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What is the equivalent of Artin gluing for quasicoherent sheaves?

Given a topological space or locale $X$ and an open $j : U \hookrightarrow X$ with closed complement $i : K \hookrightarrow X$, the inverse image functor $\langle i^*, j^* \rangle : \textbf{Sh} (X) \t …
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