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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p>In <a href="Algebraic_geometry" title="Algebraic geometry">algebraic geometry</a>, a <b>group-stack</b> is an <a href="Algebraic_stack" title="Algebraic stack">algebraic stack</a> whose categories of points have group structures or even <a href="Groupoid" title="Groupoid">groupoid</a> structures in a compatible way.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It generalizes a <a href="Group_scheme" title="Group scheme">group scheme</a>, which is a scheme whose sets of points have group structures in a compatible way.
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<ul><li>A group scheme is a group-stack. More generally, a <b>group algebraic-space</b>, an algebraic-space analog of a group scheme, is a group-stack.</li>
<li>Over a field <i>k</i>, a <b>vector bundle stack</b> <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle {\mathcal {V}}}">
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<li>A <a href="Picard_stack" class="mw-redirect" title="Picard stack">Picard stack</a> is an example of a group-stack (or groupoid-stack).</li></ul>
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<p>The definition of a <a href="Group_action_(mathematics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Group action (mathematics)">group action</a> of a group-stack is a bit tricky. First, given an algebraic stack <i>X</i> and a group scheme <i>G</i> on a base scheme <i>S</i>, a right action of <i>G</i> on <i>X</i> consists of
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<ol><li>a <a href="Morphism_of_algebraic_stacks" title="Morphism of algebraic stacks">morphism</a> <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \sigma :X\times G\to X}">
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<li>(identity) a natural isomorphism <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle 1_{X}{\overset {\sim }{\to }}\sigma \circ (1_{X}\times e)}">
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</p><p>If, more generally, <i>G</i> is a group-stack, one then extends the above using local presentations.
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