A Comparison of Categories of Nori Motivic Sheaves

Emil Jacobsen, Luca Terenzi

Published: 2025/9/25

Abstract

We show that two distinct candidate theories of Nori motivic sheaves, introduced by Ivorra--Morel and by Ayoub, respectively, are canonically equivalent. The proof, which exploits the six functor formalism systematically, is based on the Tannakian theory of motivic local systems. As a consequence, we obtain a system of realization functors of Voevodsky motivic sheaves into Nori motivic sheaves compatible with the six operations, previously constructed by Tubach using different methods.