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- From: Allan Adler <ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu>
- Subject: points
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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 06:58:34 GMT
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- Let X be a scheme. There are various toposes associated to X, more than
- I can name here. These include the Zariski topos, the etale topos,
- the flat topos, the fppf topos, the fpqc topos, the crystalline topos,
- etc.
-
- There is a notion of a point of a topos. A point of a topos T is a morphism
- of toposes p:Ens-->T, where Ens is the topos of sets. I think that in the case
- of the Zariski topos, one recovers X as the set of points of the Zariski topos,
- as least if X is Noetherian and separated, but I could easily be mistaken.
-
- At any rate, I would be interested in knowing what are the points of the
- various toposes associated to X. Is it known in all these cases?
-
- I know that in Artin's book Algebraic Spaces, he considers a scheme over
- an algebraically closed field and at each point x of the scheme, considers
- the ring of algebraic functions defined at x, while in SGA 4.5 one
- talks about strictly henselian local rings containing the local rings of
- X (if I remember correctly). So maybe these are the points of the etale topos,
- the rings of algebraic functions being a sufficient family of points.
-
- Thus, for the Zariski and etale toposes, I have a fraction of an idea, possibly
- wrong. For the other toposes associated to X, I have no idea.
-
-
- Allan Adler
- ara@altdorf.ai.mit.edu
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