Categories and sheaves appear almost frequently in contemporary advanced mathematics. This book covers categories, homological algebra and sheaves in a systematic and exhaustive manner starting from scratch, and continuing with full proofs to the most recent results in the literature, and sometimes beyond. The authors present the general theory of categories and functors, emphasizing inductive and projective limits, tensor categories, representable functors, ind-objects and localization. Then they study homological algebra including additive, abelian, triangulated categories and also unbounded derived categories using transfinite induction and accessible objects. Finally, sheaf theory as well as twisted sheaves and stacks appear in the framework of Grothendieck topologies.

Most recent results (and sometimes beyond) are presented in an exhaustive manner from scratch to full proofs Gives a full treatment of unbounded derived categories with applications to sheaf theory on Grothendieck topology

Autorentext

Masaki Kashiwara Professor at the Rims, Kyoto University
Plenary speaker ICM 1978
Invited speaker ICM 1990
http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~kenkyubu/kashiwara/

Pierre Schapira, Professor at University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
Invited speaker ICM 1990
http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~schapira/

Inhalt
The Language of Categories.- Limits.- Filtrant Limits.- Tensor Categories.- Generators and Representability.- Indization of Categories.- Localization.- Additive and Abelian Categories.- ?-accessible Objects and F-injective Objects.- Triangulated Categories.- Complexes in Additive Categories.- Complexes in Abelian Categories.- Derived Categories.- Unbounded Derived Categories.- Indization and Derivation of Abelian Categories.- Grothendieck Topologies.- Sheaves on Grothendieck Topologies.- Abelian Sheaves.- Stacks and Twisted Sheaves.