Recall that for presheaves on a site (with underlying category ) with values in a category that admits small limits and small colimits (so in particular for Set), , every functor induces three functors of presheaf catgeories:
Notation | Definition | |
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direct image | ||
left adjoint to direct image | ||
right adjoint to direct image |
Recall moreover that for any morphism of sites, the left adjoint to direct image followed by sheafification is the inverse image map of sheaves:
Now, if the morphism of sites happens to be restriction to a sub-site with with carrying the induced topology, then
the direct image is called restriction of sheaves;
the right adjoint takes sheaves to sheaves and is called extension of sheaves.
Given a site with underlying category and given a presheaf with the induced sub-site corresponding to the forgetful functor from the comma category underlying the site (as discussed at site) the right adjoint functor
to the direct image or, in this case, restriction functor
whose action may suggestively be denoted
happens to take sheaves to sheaves (when is equipped with the canonical induced topology as described at site):
one calls
the extension of sheaves on to sheaves on .
To summarize notation and terminology:
Terminology | Notation | Definition | ||
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morphism of sites | ||||
underlying functor | ||||
sheaf restriction | direct image | |||
sheaf extension | right adjoint to direct image | |||
sheaf inverse image | left adjoint to direct image followed by sheafification |
Notice the difference to the inverse image operation
For instance section 17.6 of
Kashiwara, Schapira, Categories and Sheaves
Stacks Project, Tag 00VC and Tag 00XF.
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