The fundamental pro-groupoid of an affine 2-scheme

Details The fundamental pro-groupoid of an affine 2-scheme The fundamental pro-groupoid of an affine 2-scheme

2011-05-16

arxiv.org/abs/1105.3104v4

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Category Theory

46 pages + bibliography. Diagrams drawn in TikZ

Scientific paper

10.1007/s10485-011-9275-y

A natural question in the theory of Tannakian categories is: What if you don't remember $\Forget$? Working over an arbitrary commutative ring $R$, we prove that an answer to this question is given by the functor represented by the \'etale fundamental groupoid $\pi_1(\spec(R))$, i.e.\ the separable absolute Galois group of $R$ when it is a field. This gives a new definition for \'etale $\pi_1(\spec(R))$ in terms of the category of $R$-modules rather than the category of \'etale covers. More generally, we introduce a new notion of "commutative 2-ring" that includes both Grothendieck topoi and symmetric monoidal categories of modules, and define a notion of $\pi_1$ for the corresponding "affine 2-schemes." These results help to simplify and clarify some of the peculiarities of the \'etale fundamental group. For example, \'etale fundamental groups are not "true" groups but only profinite groups, and one cannot hope to recover more: the "Tannakian" functor represented by the \'etale fundamental group of a scheme preserves finite products but not all products.

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