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-hypercovers (#26888)
We define the type of 0
-hypercovers with respect to a coverage J
on a category C
as indexed families of morphisms such that the associated presieve is a covering sieve.
The purpose of this definition is to unify workable notions of covers in categories of geometric objects, such as schemes or adic spaces. In particular, in a follow-up PR the notion AlgebraicGeometry.Scheme.Cover
shall be an abbrev
for a zero-hypercover for the associated coverage.
We define this with respect to a coverage and not to a Grothendieck topology, because this
yields more control over the components of the cover: For example, if J
is the coverage given by jointly surjective families of open immersions of schemes, a ZeroHypercover J S
is precisely an indexed, jointly surjective family of open immersions, but not only one that contains such a family.