Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2025/iii/paper-113/1/a/solution

Take , , and let be the skyscraper sheaf with value a nonzero abelian group at . Cover by and . The presheaf gives and . A nonzero section on and the zero section on agree on the overlap, whose skyscraper sections vanish, but cannot be glued on . Thus need not be a sheaf.
Sheafification preserves stalks. If , neighborhoods contained in are cofinal, so . If , no neighborhood of lies in , so every term defining the presheaf stalk is zero. Therefore
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