The Stacks Project
About
The stacks project started in 2005. The initial idea was for it to be a
collaborative web-based project with the aim of writing and introductory text
about algebraic stacks. Temporarily there was a mailing list and some
discussion as to how to proceed. For example, there are issues with referencing
such a document, how to distribute credit, who does what, and many more.
Although we have definite ideas about most of these points we would like to take
a more positive approach. Namely, to simply create something and solve problems
and answer questions as they come up.
We do want to answer a few basic questions that the casual visitor may have
about this project:
1. The stacks project is no longer an introductory text, but aims to build up
enough basic algebraic geometry as foundations for algebraic stacks. This
implies a good deal of theory on commutative algebra, schemes, varieties,
algebraic spaces, has to be developed en route.
2. The stacks project has a maintainer (currently A.J. de Jong) who accepts
changes etc. proposed by contributors. Although everyone is encourage to
participate it is not a wiki.
3. The stacks project is meant to be read online, and therefore we do not
worry about length of the chapters, etc. Moreover, with hyperlinks it is
possible to quickly browse through the chapters to find the lemmas, theorems,
etc. that a given result depends on.
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