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Azumaya geometry and representation stacks

Rings and Algebras 2019-08-07 v3 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We develop Azumaya geometry, which is an extension of classical affine geometry to the world of Azumaya algebras, and package the information contained in all quotient stacks [repnR/PGLn][\mathrm{rep}_n R\,/\,\mathrm{PGL}_n] into a presheaf RepR\mathrm{Rep}_R on it. We show that the classical \'etale and Zariski topologies extend to Grothendieck topologies on Azumaya geometry in uncountably many ways, and prove that RepR\mathrm{Rep}_R is a sheaf for all of them. The restriction to a specific Azumaya algebra AA with center CC gives us a sheaf in the \'etale topology which is represented by an affine CC-scheme repA(R)\mathrm{rep}_A(R), which we call the Azumaya representation scheme of RR with respect to AA.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1606.07885,
  title  = {Azumaya geometry and representation stacks},
  author = {Jens Hemelaer and Lieven Le Bruyn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.07885},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

12 pages; rewritten to improve readability

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