Relative tensor products of \(\infty\)-categories of local systems

The Lurie tensor product is part of a symmetric monoidal structure on the \(\infty\)-category \(\mathrm{Pr}^\mathrm{L}\) of presentable \(\infty\)-categories.

It enjoys many good formal properties, and is often computable. An example of this computability is that if \(C\) is a small \(\infty\)-category and \(\mathcal{D,E}\) are presentable, then \(\mathcal D^C \otimes \mathcal E \simeq (\mathcal D\otimes \mathcal E)^C\). A special case of this is …

Some families of finite flat group schemes

When people say finite flat group scheme, what exactly do they mean? Sometimes, they just mean finite flat group scheme, presumably over some prefixed base. But often people meant finite flat *commutative* group scheme. It’s confusing. In this blog, I shall always mean the former, and add the adjective “commutative” …

Isometries of a product of Riemannian manifolds

Theorem. Let \((A, g_A)\) and \((B, g_B)\) be two compact Riemannian manifolds with irreducible holonomy groups. Let \((X, g):= (A \times B, g_A \oplus g_B)\). Then

\[ \operatorname{Isom}(X) = \begin{cases} \operatorname{Isom}(A) \times \operatorname{Isom}(B), \ \text{ if } A \text{ is not isometric to } B \\ \left ( \operatorname{Isom}(A) \times \operatorname{Isom}(B) \right ) \rtimes \mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}, \ \text{ otherwise } \end{cases} \]

This result seems to be a folklore, probably well known to the specialists, although it is hard to find it in the literature. The only discussion which I managed to find on Mathoverflow contains …

Finite flat commutative group schemes embed locally into abelian schemes

Let \(G\) be a finite flat commutative group scheme over a fixed locally noetherian base scheme \(S\). In this brief note, I want to explain the proof of the following theorem due to Raynaud.

Theorem. There exists, Zariski-locally on \(S\), an abelian scheme \(A\) such that \(G\) embeds as a closed \(S\)-subgroup of …

A proof of a general slice-Bennequin inequality

In this blog post, I’ll provide a slick proof of a form of the slice-Bennequin inequality (as outlined by Kronheimer in a mathoverflow answer.) The main ingredient is the adjunction inequality for surfaces embedded in closed 4-manifolds. To obtain the slice-Bennequin inequality (which is a statement about surfaces embedded …