Coherent sheaf
Haz coherente
- Date
- 1951-1952 · confidence low
- Place
- Paris, France
- Credited to
- Henri Cartan
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
Class of sheaves over a ringed space, developed from Henri Cartan's work, generalizing vector bundles and forming an abelian category closed under kernels, images, and cokernels.
What it led to
- Formalization of the Cartan–Serre theorems (A and B)
- Essential tool of modern algebraic geometry
- Foundation for sheaf cohomology