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Pasting pseudofunctors

Suresh Nayak

math.AGarXiv:math/0406501

Abstract

We give an abstract criterion for pasting pseudofunctors on two subcategories of a category into a pseudofunctor on the whole category. As an application we extend the variance theory of the twisted inverse image (-)! over schemes to that over formal schemes. Thus we show that over composites of compactifiable maps of noetherian formal schemes, there is a pseudofunctor (-)! such that if f is a pseudoproper map, then f! is the right adjoint to the derived direct image f* and if f is etale, then f! is the inverse image f*. We also show that (-)! is compatible with flat base change.

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