Nisnevich topology

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The Nisnevich topology is a Grothendieck topology on schemes tailored to capture étale-local algebraic information while ensuring strong local lifting properties over points.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Grothendieck topology
topology on schemes
appliesTo general schemes
schemes of finite type over a base
arisesFrom Nisnevich cd-structure NERFINISHED
associatedWith distinguished Nisnevich squares
excision squares in K-theory
baseChangeBehavior stable under base change of schemes
characterizedBy distinguished squares
pointwise lifting property for étale morphisms
coarserThan étale topology NERFINISHED
comparedWith Zariski topology NERFINISHED
étale topology
compatibleWith étale-local algebraic information
coveringFamilyCondition for every point of the base there exists a point in some cover with isomorphic residue field and mapping to it
coversGivenBy families of étale morphisms satisfying residue field isomorphism conditions
definedOn category of schemes
category of schemes over a base scheme
ensures existence of sections after refinement around points
strong local lifting properties over points
generalizes Zariski open covers via étale refinements
hasProperty enough points
finer than Zariski but not as fine as étale
subcanonical
introducedBy Yevsey Nisnevich NERFINISHED
morphismCondition covers consist of jointly surjective families of étale morphisms with residue field lifting
motivation to capture étale-local behavior while improving pointwise lifting properties
refines Zariski topology NERFINISHED
relatedConcept cd-structure
supports descent for algebraic K-theory
excision in algebraic K-theory
typicalCover étale morphism admitting sections over all residue fields of the base
usedFor comparison of algebraic and topological K-theory in certain settings
construction of homotopy invariant sheaves
localization arguments in motivic homotopy
usedIn A¹-homotopy theory NERFINISHED
Morel–Voevodsky A¹-homotopy theory NERFINISHED
Voevodsky’s construction of triangulated categories of motives
algebraic K-theory
algebraic geometry
descent theory
motivic homotopy theory
usedToDefine Nisnevich cohomology NERFINISHED
Nisnevich descent NERFINISHED
Nisnevich sheaves NERFINISHED
Nisnevich-local model structures on motivic spectra
Nisnevich-local model structures on simplicial presheaves

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Grothendieck topology generalizes Nisnevich topology