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The constant presheaf need not be a sheaf on a disconnected open set
Statement refuted
Fix a set with distinct elements . The constant presheaf on a space , defined by with identity restrictions between nonempty opens and the unique restriction to the empty open, is always a sheaf.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A space containing a disconnected open set with , and a set with .
Identity restriction maps define a presheaf on (A presheaf on a topological space).
The sheafification of a presheaf is defined by the double plus construction (Sheafification of a presheaf).
The plus construction identifies germ-compatible local presentations when their germs agree at every point (The plus construction for a presheaf).
Locally constant -valued functions form a sheaf (Locally constant functions form a sheaf and have constant stalks).
Counterexample
By [F1], is a presheaf. On the disjoint cover , choose the local sections and . Both restrict to the unique element of , so the pair is compatible on .
A glued section over would have to be an element whose restrictions to the two nonempty opens are and . Those restriction maps are identities, so this would force , contradicting the choice . Therefore is not a sheaf.
Write . At any point , two constant sections on neighbourhoods of have equal germs exactly when their values in agree: restriction to a smaller neighbourhood is the identity. Thus a germ-compatible presentation for assigns a constant value on each nonempty chart, with equal values wherever two charts meet. These values define a locally constant function on . Equivalent presentations define the same function, and presentations defining the same function are equivalent pointwise. Every locally constant function has such a presentation by constant neighbourhoods. For , all presentations are equivalent and correspond to the unique empty function. These bijections commute with restriction, so .
For any sheaf , germ-compatible local sections agree on each overlap: equality of germs gives equality on a neighbourhood of each point, and sheaf locality gives equality on the whole overlap. They therefore glue uniquely to a section of . This gluing identifies with , including the empty open, naturally in . Apply this to the sheaf from [L1]. Step 3.1 then gives ; the single-chart unit sends a constant section to its constant function.
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Sources
- The Stacks Project, Sheaves on Spaces, Definition 3.2 (standard reference, not scraped)
- The Stacks Project, Sheaves on Spaces, Definition 7.4 (standard reference, not scraped)