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"Gerbe" is a construct in homological algebra and topology. They can be seen as a generalization of principal bundles to the setting of 2-categories. "Gerbe" is a French (and archaic English) word that literally means wheat sheaf. Gerbes were introduced by Jean Giraud (Giraud 1971) following ideas of Alexandre Grothendieck as a tool for non-commutative cohomology in degree 2.

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Fiberwise criterion for a stack to be a gerbe

As for Q2, I don't think so. For example, consider $(BG \times (\mathbb{A}^1\setminus \{ 0 \}))\amalg BG\to \mathbb{A}^1$, everything over $\mathbb{C}$. Added [Edit: this one doesn't work, see commen …
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Phenomena of gerbes

The root gerbes $${^r}\sqrt{\mathscr{L}/X}$$ associated to a line bundle on a scheme (or stack) $X$ …
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Phenomena of gerbes

If $\mathscr{M}$ is the moduli stack of mathematical objects $X$ of some specified kind such that $\mathrm{Aut}(X)$ always (naturally) contains a group (object) $G\subseteq\mathrm{Aut}(X)$, then $\mat …
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