Building Data for Stacky Covers
arXiv:2012.10290 · doi:10.1007/s00029-024-00939-1
Abstract
We define stacky building data for stacky covers in the spirit of Pardini and give an equivalence of (2,1)-categories between the category of stacky covers and the category of stacky building data. We show that every stacky cover is a flat root stack in the sense of Olsson and Borne--Vistoli and give an intrinsic description of it as a root stack using stacky building data. When the base scheme S is defined over a field, we give a criterion for when a birational building datum comes from a tamely ramified cover for a finite abelian group scheme, generalizing a result of Biswas--Borne.
With changed suggested by the referee. Published in Selecta Mathematica. ArXiv version 46 pages