Stably uniform affinoids are sheafy

Abstract

We develop some of the foundations of affinoid pre-adic spaces without Noetherian or finiteness hypotheses. We give some explicit examples of non-adic affinoid pre-adic spaces (including a locally perfectoid one). On the positive side, we also show that if every affinoid subspace of an affinoid pre-adic space is uniform, then the structure presheaf is a sheaf; note in particular that we assume no finiteness hypotheses on our rings here. One can use our result to give a new proof that the spectrum of a perfectoid algebra is an adic space.