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Rests on 3 statements not proved in this library, by way of the results it cites. This item cites no such statement directly; it depends on results that do. The unproved premises it inherits are Cohen's first model: an infinite Dedekind-finite set of reals, Sierpiński 1947: the generalised continuum hypothesis implies the Axiom of Choice and The continuum hypothesis and its generalisation are independent of ZFC. Each is recorded with a citation to the literature and is not established here, because the track that would prove it has not yet been developed in this library. Everything else in this proof is proved here.

The objectwise cokernel presheaf can fail to be a sheaf

Statement refuted

For a morphism of sheaves of abelian groups, the objectwise cokernel presheaf is automatically a sheaf.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The circle X=S1, the sheaf C of continuous real-valued functions, and the subsheaf Z of locally constant integer-valued functions.

[F1]

Cokernel sheaves are obtained by sheafifying the objectwise cokernel presheaf (Kernel sheaves are objectwise, while cokernels and images are sheafified).

Counterexample

technique · direct
1.1

Let P be the presheaf cokernel of the inclusion ZC, so P(V)=C(V)/Z(V) for each open VS1. Cover S1 by the arcs U0=S1{(1,0)} and U1=S1{(1,0)}, and choose continuous angle functions θ0:U0(1/2,1/2) and θ1:U1(0,1) with e2πiθi(z)=z. On U0U1, the difference θ1θ0 is locally constant integer-valued, so the classes [θ0]P(U0) and [θ1]P(U1) agree on the overlap.

givenconstruct
2.1

If these local classes came from a global class [g]P(S1), then on each arc Ui the difference gθi would be integer-valued and continuous, hence constant because Ui is connected. On the two connected components of U0U1, this would force the same constant difference to be both 0 and 1, which is impossible. Therefore the compatible local classes of step 1.1 do not glue in the presheaf P.

step 1.1contradiction
3.1

So the objectwise cokernel presheaf is not a sheaf. By [F1], this is exactly why one sheafifies it to obtain the true cokernel sheaf. The statement is false.

F1step 2.1

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