Title: 1 Definition of Algebraic Stack and Fibre Products
Title: 1 Definition of Algebraic Stack and Fibre Products
Title: 1 Definition of Algebraic Stack and Fibre Products
Jia Jia
April 8, 2022
Let S denote a fixed base scheme and we work over the category of S-schemes with the
étale topology.
X ×Y ,y U
is an algebraic space.
Proof. Indeed, the fibre product V ×Y X is equivalent to a sheaf since the condition that
the objects of this stack have no nontrivial automorphisms can be verified after making an
étale base change U → V with U a scheme. The result therefore follows from exercise 5.G
applied to V ×Y X → V .
is representable.
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1 DEFINITION OF ALGEBRAIC STACK AND FIBRE PRODUCTS 2
Remark 1.5. Being an algebraic stack is property of fibred categories over the category of
S-schemes. Morphisms of algebraic stacks are defined to be morphisms of fibred categories.
In particular, for two algebraic stacks X and Y over S we have a category of morphism
HOMS (X , Y ).
Remark 1.6. Note that condition (i) implies that every morphism t : T → X , with T a
scheme, is representable. Indeed, if u : U → X is another morphism from a scheme, then
the fibre product
U ×u,X ,t T
U ×S T
u×t
X
∆ / X ×S X
and therefore the fibre product is an algebraic space by (i). It therefore make sense to talk
about a smooth surjective morphism X → X as in (ii).