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Categorical and derived tools for analytic sheaves

An English course with 237 lessons and 948 fully worked exercises. Further topics will be added.

Universal properties and category theory; Ind and Pro constructions; monoidal categories and duality; modules, stacks and coherent descent; complexes, triangulated categories and derived functors; sheaf cohomology, local-to-global comparisons and gerbes.

  1. Universes and small categories
  2. Relations and cancellation in categories
  3. Zero maps, components and subobjects
  4. Natural transformations and composition of functors
  5. Equivalences and chosen representatives
  6. Products, disjoint unions and mixed functors
  7. Ind-objects through their elements
  8. Generators and small quotient families
  9. Coimages, images and composition of quotients
  10. Solution sets and universal representations
  11. Dense probes and reconstruction from colimits
  12. Finite duality and failure of opposite density
  13. Formal colimits and compact presentations
  14. Ideal-generated modules and nonstrict quotients
  15. Trace coreflections and balanced nonabelian categories
  16. Internal groups, limits and transport
  17. Recovering addition from products and coproducts
  18. Additive localization and projector decompositions
  19. Formal linear combinations and finite sums
  20. Bilinear functors and tensor products of categories
  21. Quotients by a factorization ideal
  22. Full subcategories and exact closure
  23. Testing exactness with doubled objects
  24. Coherence from finite probes
  25. Composition factors and uniform chain bounds
  26. Exact squares and endpoint tests
  27. Character duals and one-sided injectivity
  28. Recovering isomorphisms from filtered pieces
  29. Finite support and the limits that a category permits
  30. Splittings, support and sequential exactness
  31. Finite orbit spans and actions on formal unions
  32. Initial objects, universal colimits and pointed categories
  33. Locally nilpotent operators and coinduced duals
  34. Small modules with too many scalar operators
  35. Exact complexes, signs and lifting covers
  36. Extending maps, splittings and exact functors
  37. Pointwise abelian structure and natural splittings
  38. Kernels, cokernels and the abelian comparison
  39. Finite module tests and Banach quotients
  40. Hom, tensor and the exactness of module limits
  41. Testing injectivity on generators and constructing enough injectives
  42. Serre quotients and local saturation
  43. Extending right exact functors from generators
  44. Operators, matrix relations and internal tensor–Hom
  45. Natural scalars on modules and finite abelian groups
  46. From a generator to module presentations
  47. Two cokernels, controlled rows and abelian completion
  48. Finite diagrams and comma objects
  49. Limits and colimits of formal objects
  50. Retracts and stabilization of formal objects
  51. Finite-rank tests and finite generation
  52. Profinite spaces and finite-stage maps
  53. Localizing functors through formal objects
  54. Descent through replacement objects
  55. One-sided fractions and saturation
  56. Tensor actions and absolute algebra presentations
  57. Braidings, cocycles and cyclic power obstructions
  58. Tensor duality and coherent inverses
  59. Free tensor words and ordered algebra encoding
  60. Coherent integer actions from commuting equivalences
  61. Representing objects from local data
  62. Local module categories and Morita equivalence
  63. Twisted modules from coherent gluing
  64. Attachment maps from diagrams to costalks
  65. Points, fibres and universal representations
  66. Passing maps across an adjunction
  67. Cuts and endpoint maps in finite orders
  68. Testing equivalence with arrows and finite characters
  69. Building categories from familiar structures
  70. Compatible families and universal cones
  71. Universal forks and diagram constructions
  72. Extending diagrams by universal maps
  73. Colimits as connected components
  74. Change an index without changing its universal maps
  75. Formal colimits and their test objects
  76. Extending a functor from its representables
  77. Universal tests for forks and finite limits
  78. Fibres, slices and index adjunctions
  79. Reindexing, units and terminal probes
  80. Formal coproducts and economical indices
  81. Presheaf exactness and pullback comparisons
  82. Filtered stages and finite limits
  83. Local tests and independent product comparisons
  84. Incoming comma tests and assembly from finite pieces
  85. Exactness through comma categories and small Kan values
  86. Comma functors, iterated cocones and arrow categories
  87. Universal maps, finite probes and countable indexing
  88. Well-orders, cardinal bounds and regular successors
  89. Common arrows and bounded Set comparisons
  90. Small predecessors and maps into filtered colimits
  91. Bounded colimits, accessible sets and cardinal ind-objects
  92. Cardinal Ind presentations and their realization
  93. Coproduct covers and generator bounds
  94. Accessible objects from a single generator
  95. Chain homotopies, mapping cones and triangles
  96. Derived morphisms through quasi-isomorphism roofs
  97. Triangles after quasi-isomorphism localization
  98. Injective replacements and right derived functors
  99. Universal cohomology and acyclic resolutions
  100. Postnikov towers and Grothendieck spectral sequences
  101. Filtered complexes and Cartan–Eilenberg resolutions
  102. Unbounded injective replacements and derived functors
  103. Relative injectivity and small test families
  104. Injective cogenerators and faithful module realizations
  105. Essential extensions and filtered test categories
  106. Triangles, finite universal maps and the limits of cohomology
  107. Translations, coherent powers and universal triangle comparisons
  108. Connecting signs and opposite triangle structures
  109. Null systems, roofs and the retract kernel
  110. Localizing triangulated functors and signed bifunctors
  111. Extending cohomology through filtered arrow stages
  112. Product-preserving functors and countable Brown probes
  113. Brown towers, representability and exact adjoints
  114. Split triangles, idempotent telescopes and semisimple structures
  115. Orthogonal localization and the morphisms between pieces
  116. Representing filtered triangles by a finite stage
  117. Signed three-by-three diagrams and double cones
  118. Differential objects, curvature and cone homotopies
  119. Stabilizing an endofunctor through eventual maps
  120. Graded complexes, contravariant signs and stupid truncations
  121. Augmented finite orders and contracting coface complexes
  122. Signed bifunctors and sum and product total complexes
  123. Cohomology in abelian categories with translation
  124. Smart truncations and image boundary homotopies
  125. Determinant signs and subset Koszul complexes
  126. Intersection complexes and the full distributivity criterion
  127. Distributive sublattices, duality and simultaneous splittings
  128. Finite diagonal totals and signed double truncations
  129. Acyclic lines, Weil staircases and corner removal
  130. Exact bifunctors and the canonical field Künneth map
  131. Countable Mittag-Leffler towers and formal Pro derived limits
  132. Local tests and global maps in real-parameter module diagrams
  133. Real-parameter complexes and cohomology continuity
  134. Cohomological bounds, denominators and truncation adjunctions
  135. Hereditary categories and cohomology splittings
  136. Relative replacements and finite resolution bounds
  137. Compatible injective classes and exact refinements
  138. Universal derived functors and compatible composition
  139. Formal Pro products and classes that compute derived limits
  140. Derived Hom and bounded resolution pairs
  141. First derived cohomology and composition through truncation
  142. Injective tests and finite homological dimension
  143. Short exact extensions and the Baer group
  144. Higher extensions, roofs and Yoneda composition
  145. Thick abelian subcategories and derived comparison
  146. Functorial cones and derived connecting maps
  147. Two cohomology degrees, Ext classes and polynomial models
  148. Finite cohomology splittings and derived kernels
  149. Right derived tensor and torsion-free quotients
  150. Cosyzygies and the bounded injective quotient
  151. Hard-Lefschetz maps and cohomology splittings
  152. Weyl polynomial modules and their Koszul calculations
  153. Polynomial rings, finite resolutions and derived duality
  154. Hereditary cohomology and integral tensor splittings
  155. Nested Hom classes and bounded derived embeddings
  156. Tensor and Hom for twisted module stacks
  157. Bimodules and adjoints of module-stack functors
  158. Noncommutative gluing by invertible bimodules
  159. Dual and tensor products of locally module stacks
  160. Relative pullback of locally module stacks
  161. Injective objects in locally module stacks
  162. Flat covers and bounded tensor for locally module stacks
  163. Ind-completion and Serre quotients
  164. Derived sections of Ind Serre quotients
  165. Finitely presented generators and coherent Ind reconstruction
  166. Closed support and localization for locally module stacks
  167. Noetherian generators, filtered injectives and Ext
  168. Localizing subcategories and noetherian Serre pieces
  169. Derived perfect duality for twisted module complexes
  170. Separable algebra objects and absolute balanced tensor
  171. Separable monads and the Karoubi completion of free modules
  172. Flat algebra epimorphisms and exact localization of module stacks
  173. Faithfully flat scalar descent and Amitsur resolutions
  174. Finite projective descent and Morita generators
  175. Associated sheaves with general coefficients
  176. Finite-cover sheafification and locally nilpotent coefficients
  177. Flat modules as an Ind completion of finite free modules
  178. Coefficient morphism sheaves and local isomorphisms
  179. Modules and tensor functors over small preadditive categories
  180. Cauchy completion and Morita equivalence of many-object modules
  181. Ideals, quotients and torsion triples for many-object modules
  182. Projective probes and recollements of many-object modules
  183. Finite projective bimodules and both adjoints of tensor
  184. Dualizable sheaves, finite covers and global projectivity
  185. Finite presentations and Ind reconstruction on finite-cover sites
  186. Finite-poset sheaves and canonical homological resolutions
  187. Derived direct images and base change on finite posets
  188. Local systems, tensor duals and global projectivity on finite posets
  189. Ind representations and the locally finite coreflector
  190. Pro representations and continuous duality
  191. Completed tensors and continuous algebra objects
  192. Finite subcoalgebras and profinite algebra reconstruction
  193. Comodules, rational modules and cofree injective resolutions
  194. Godement resolutions and flabby sheaf cohomology
  195. Čech complexes, refinements and acyclic covers
  196. Torsors, first cohomology and line bundles
  197. Higher direct images and the Leray spectral sequence
  198. Sheaf Ext and the local-to-global spectral sequence
  199. Filtered colimits and sheaf cohomology on quasi-compact opens
  200. Cohomological dimension of noetherian spaces
  201. Sieves, local isomorphisms and presheaf localization
  202. Restriction, inverse images and morphisms of sieve sites
  203. Slice sites, dependent products and base change
  204. Ringed sieve sites and extension of scalars
  205. Quasi-injectives and bounded comparisons for Ind categories
  206. Derived Ind functors and filtered Ext comparisons
  207. Dense subsites and change of topology
  208. Coefficient sheafification on arbitrary sieve sites
  209. Stackification, local morphisms and ordinary inverse images
  210. Stackification by cartesian sections on covering sieves
  211. Functor stacks, cartesian currying and two-fibre products
  212. Finite closed covers and sheaf cohomology
  213. Locally constant module sheaves and transition maps
  214. Interval cohomology and homotopy invariance for sheaves
  215. Path transport and monodromy of locally constant sheaves
  216. Strict monoidal models and transport of algebra objects
  217. Monoidal adjunctions, mates and dual projection formulas
  218. Germ spaces, étalé maps and geometric sheafification
  219. Presentable probes and accessible adjoint functors
  220. Small orthogonality and accessible reflective localizations
  221. Small presentations and saturated reflection equivalences
  222. Coend coalgebras and reconstruction from finite fibres
  223. Monoidal fibres, bialgebras and duality reconstruction
  224. Scalar tensor automorphisms and affine group reconstruction
  225. Locally presentable coefficients and accessible sheafification
  226. Ind tensor products and compact duals
  227. Internal Hom in Ind categories and flat module obstructions
  228. Derived limits on small categories and cofinal restriction
  229. Cofiltered derived limits and morphisms of pro-objects
  230. Soft sheaves on paracompact Hausdorff spaces
  231. Fine module sheaves and central partitions of unity
  232. Closed subsets and continuity of sheaf cohomology
  233. Čech comparison and cohomological bounds on paracompact spaces
  234. Covering dimension and locally finite refinements
  235. Stacks over sheaves and epimorphic descent
  236. Abelian gerbes and second sheaf cohomology
  237. Adjoints of completed tensor products

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