Treat as the trivial group if is not abelian. The restriction maps satisfy the presheaf identities. To verify the sheaf gluing axiom, take an open cover of . If , every section group is trivial. If , at least one contains . Every two such opens have an overlap containing , so compatibility forces all their sections to have the same value . Opens not containing have their unique trivial section. The value is exactly the unique glued section. Thus the stated presheaf is a skyscraper sheaf, including for nonabelian groups.
For the stalk of a sheaf, take the direct limit over neighbourhoods of . If some neighbourhood of omits , neighbourhoods inside are cofinal and all their groups are trivial. If every neighbourhood of contains , every group in the system is and every transition map is the identity. Consequently, on the arbitrary topological space in the question,
Membership in this closure means exactly that every neighbourhood of contains . In particular . If is a closed point, the closure is just and the familiar point-supported answer results. The separation assumption is not present in the printed question, so it cannot be imposed silently.
The scheme-theoretic fibres over positive real points, negative real points, zero, and nonreal closed points have real coordinate algebras , , , and , respectively. Their ordinary irreducible component counts are , so there are four real-scheme isomorphism classes. The last case pulls back an irreducible quadratic to a squarefree degree-eight polynomial, with four conjugate pairs of nonreal roots. The zero fibre retains its nilpotents and is not a reduced point.
Skyscraper sheaf Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
For a point inclusion and an abelian group , the skyscraper sheaf has sections on opens containing and zero on other opens. Its restriction maps are identities or maps to zero. If , its nonzero stalks occur at every point of the closure : exactly those points whose every neighbourhood contains . Thus the familiar assertion that only the stalk at is nonzero requires to be a closed point. It is always flasque, giving the stated skyscraper sheaf cohomology.
Smooth point of a variety Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-07
Over a perfect field, a point of a variety is smooth when its local ring is a regular local ring. For an irreducible variety of dimension at a closed point, this is equivalent to its Zariski tangent space having dimension . The Jacobian criterion expresses the equality as a matrix-rank condition.
T1 space 2026-10-06
A topological space is T1 when every point is a closed point. Equivalently, for distinct there is an open set containing but not , and an open set containing but not . These open sets need not be disjoint. Every Hausdorff space is T1, but an infinite set with its cofinite topology is T1 without being Hausdorff.