Questions tagged [mathematical-french]

In English, if we speak of the stalk of a locally free $\mathcal{O}_X$-module (say), we mean its stalk as a sheaf. If we speak of the fiber, we mean the same thing after killing the maximal ideal. I remember confusing these two things when I was…

In a French mathematical paper I am reading, there is the following situation: let $f,\sigma:A\rightarrow A$ two group homomorphisms and there is an $N$ such that $\ker (f)\subseteq C = \ker(\sigma^N -1)$. What does this mean in English: if we…

What is a good translation for the word "scholie"? This appears in Grothendieck, EGA III 5.1.7, and I don't know its meaning. Neither DeepL nor Google translate nor dict.leo.org know this word. It does not appear in a sentence, but at the beginning…