The Stacks project

About

The Stacks project is an ever growing open source textbook and reference work on algebraic stacks and the algebraic geometry needed to define them. Here are some quick facts:

  1. The Stacks project is not an introductory text. It is written for graduate students and researchers in algebraic geometry.

  2. The aim is to build algebraic geometry and use this in laying the foundations for algebraic stacks. The theory of commutative algebra, schemes, varieties, and algebraic spaces forms an integral part of the Stacks project.

  3. The Stacks project has a maintainer (currently Aise Johan de Jong) who accepts changes etc. proposed by contributors. Everyone is encouraged to participate.

  4. The Stacks project is meant to be read online. Consequently we do not worry about length of the chapters, etc. With hyperlinks and the search function it is possible to quickly browse through the chapters to find the lemmas, theorems, etc. that a given result depends on.

  5. We use tags to identify results, which are permanent identifiers for a result. You can read more about this on the tags explained page.

For a longer discussion, please read the blog post What is the stacks project?

History

July 5, 2005
Birth of the idea
Originally it was meant to be a collaborative web-based project with the aim of writing an introductory text about algebraic stacks. Temporarily there was a mailing list and some discussion as to how to proceed.
May 20, 2008
First commit for the Stacks project
It started as 70 pages of preliminary notes. We've come a long way.
July 19, 2012
The first version of the website goes online
Before that there was a rudimentary tag lookup system (since May 2009, see fad2e12), but no navigation, rendering, comments, ...
July 31–Aug 4, 2017
The (first) Stacks project workshop
We had the first Stacks project workshop, with small groups dedicated to studying a topic related to algebraic stacks, and producing new content for the Stacks project.
May 20, 2018
The second version of the website goes online.
This is what you are looking at right now.

Workshops

As mentioned in the history overview, we have had a Stacks project workshop in Ann Arbor, from July 31 to August 4 2017. It was a great success.

We will organise a new workshop in the future. Stay tuned for more news (which will be made available via the Stacks project blog).

Acknowledgements

The Stacks project acknowledges the following financial and technical support.