Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Date
Tuesday, 19 March, 11.30 am
Venue
Room 215
Host
Sudarshan Gurjar
speaker
Nitin Nitsure
Affiliation
Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana
Title
Effective Galois descent for Schemes and Algebraic Space.
Abstract
We will translate faithfully flat descent and effective descent into Galois theoretic terms, and give examples. Then we will consider the problem of effective Galois descent for the fibered categories of schemes and algebraic spaces. While effective Galois (and etale) descent holds for algebraic spaces, we will give an elementary example showing it does not hold for the subcategory of algebraic spaces formed by schemes. This is one of the advantages of generalizing from schemes to algebraic spaces.