sheafification


Let T be a site. Let PT denote the category of presheaves on T (with values in the category of abelian groups), and ST the category of sheaves on T. There is a natural inclusion functor ι:STPT.

Theorem 1

The functorMathworldPlanetmath ι has a left adjoint :PTST, that is, for any sheaf F and presheafPlanetmathPlanetmathPlanetmath G, we have

HomST(G,F)HomPT(G,ιF).

This functor is called sheafificationPlanetmathPlanetmath, and G is called the sheafification of F.

One can readily check that this description in terms of adjoints characterizes completely, and that this definition reduces to the usual definition of sheafification (http://planetmath.org/Sheafification) when T is the Zariski site. It also allows derivation of various exactness properties of and ι.

References

  • 1 Grothendieck et al., Séminaires en Gèometrie Algèbrique 4, tomes 1, 2, and 3, available on the web at http://www.math.mcgill.ca/ archibal/SGA/SGA.htmlhttp://www.math.mcgill.ca/ archibal/SGA/SGA.html
Title sheafification
Canonical name Sheafification1
Date of creation 2013-03-22 14:13:08
Last modified on 2013-03-22 14:13:08
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Defines sheafification