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K-flat complexes of abelian sheaves in the bounded-above setting
Definition
Let be a topological space. A bounded-above cochain complex of abelian sheaves on (Cochain complex in an abelian category, Bounded, bounded below, and bounded above complexes) is K-flat in the bounded-above sense used on this page when for every acyclic bounded-above complex of abelian sheaves, acyclicity being exactness in every degree (Exactness of a complex at a degree and acyclic complexes, Cohomology object of a cochain complex), the tensor-product total complex of Tensor product of abelian sheaves and its total complex is acyclic.
This is the bounded-above variant of the K-flat complexes of the Stacks Project (Definition 26.2), restricted to the complexes between which the tensor-product total complex of Tensor product of abelian sheaves and its total complex is defined; no unbounded total complex is used on this page. The two facts that make the notion useful are proved on this page: a bounded-above complex of flat sheaves (Flat abelian sheaves) is K-flat (Flat resolutions of abelian sheaves and K-flatness of bounded-above flat complexes), and tensoring with a K-flat complex preserves quasi-isomorphisms (Quasi-isomorphism, K-flat sheaf complexes preserve quasi-isomorphisms).
Depends on
Topology on a set, open and closed sets, clopen sets, the closed-set axiomatisation, and the coarser/finer comparison
Tensor product of abelian sheaves and its total complex
Exactness of a complex at a degree and acyclic complexes
Bounded, bounded below, and bounded above complexes
Cochain complex in an abelian category
Quasi-isomorphism
Flat abelian sheaves
Cohomology object of a cochain complex