Twisted sheaf

In mathematics, a twisted sheaf is a variant of a coherent sheaf. Precisely, it is specified by: an open covering in the étale topology U_i, coherent sheaves F_i over U_i, a Čech 2-cocycle θ on the covering U_i as well as the isomorphisms

$g_{ij}:F_{j}|_{U_{ij}}{\overset {\sim }{\to }}F_{i}|_{U_{ij}}$

satisfying

• $g_{ii}=\operatorname {id} _{F_{i}}$,
• $g_{ij}=g_{ji}^{-1},$
• $g_{ij}\circ g_{jk}\circ g_{ki}=\theta _{ijk}\operatorname {id} _{F_{i}}.$

The notion of twisted sheaves was introduced by Giraud. The above definition due to Căldăraru is down-to-earth but is equivalent to a more sophisticated definition in terms of gerbe; see § 2.1.3 of (Lieblich 2007).

See also

• reflexive sheaf

References

• Căldăraru, A.: Derived categories of twisted sheaves on Calabi-Yau manifolds. Thesis, Cornell Univ., May 2000.
• Lieblich, M.: Moduli of twisted sheaves, Duke Math. J. 138 (2007), no. 1, 23–118.