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 | | This, however, is not quite the same thing; one speaks instead of a (Click link for more info and facts about locally ringed space) locally ringed space, because it is not true, except in trite cases, that such a sheaf is a functor into a category of local rings. |
 | | It is the stalks of the sheaf that are local rings, not the collections of sections (which are (Gymnastic apparatus consisting of a pair of heavy metal circles (usually covered with leather) suspended by ropes; used for gymnastic exercises) rings, but in general are not close to being local). |
 | | This is a logical matter: axioms for a local ring require use of (Click link for more info and facts about existential quantification) existential quantification, in the form that for any r in the ring, one of r and 1 − r is (Click link for more info and facts about invertible) invertible. |
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