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A short exact sequence of abelian groups gives a short exact sequence of skyscraper sheaves

Example

Let

0 \to A^{'} \to A \to A^{''} \to 0

be a short exact sequence of abelian groups, and let $x \in X$ . Then applying the skyscraper construction at $x$ gives a short exact sequence of sheaves

0 \to i_{x, *} A^{'} \to i_{x, *} A \to i_{x, *} A^{''} \to 0.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: A short exact sequence of abelian groups $0 \to A^{'} \to A \to A^{''} \to 0$ and a point $x \in X$ .

[F1]

A stalk is the colimit of sections over neighbourhoods of the point, and for the skyscraper sheaf those section groups are $A$ on neighbourhoods containing $x$ and $0$ on neighbourhoods omitting $x$ (The stalk of a presheaf at a point, A skyscraper sheaf of abelian groups at a point).

[L1]

Exactness of a sequence of abelian sheaves is equivalent to exactness on every stalk (A sequence of abelian sheaves is exact exactly when it is exact on every stalk).

[L2]

Short exactness of the displayed sheaf sequence is exactness in the sense of sheaves (Exact sequences of sheaves).

Verification

technique · direct

1.1

Fix a point $y \in X$ . If every neighbourhood of $y$ contains $x$ , then [F1] shows that each stalk in the displayed skyscraper sequence is the original group at $y$ , so the stalk sequence is exactly $0 \to A^{'} \to A \to A^{''} \to 0.$ If some neighbourhood of $y$ omits $x$ , then every smaller neighbourhood also omits $x$ , so [F1] makes all three stalks equal to $0$ and the stalk sequence is $0 \to 0 \to 0 \to 0.$ In either case the stalk sequence is exact.

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2.1

The stalk sequence is therefore exact at every point, so [L1] implies that the skyscraper sequence is exact as a sequence of sheaves. By [L2], this is exactly the claimed short exact sequence of skyscraper sheaves.

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Sources

The Stacks Project, Definition 6.27.1 and Section 17.3 (standard reference, not scraped)
Ravi Vakil, The Rising Sea, Example 2.2.12 and Exercise 2.6.D (standard reference, not scraped)