Enhanced Six Operations and Base Change Theorem for Artin Stacks

In this article, we develop a theory of Grothendieck’s six operations for derived categories in étale cohomology of Artin stacks. We prove several desired properties of the operations, including the base change theorem in derived categories. This extends all previous theories on this subject, including the recent one developed by Laszlo and Olsson, in which the operations are subject to more assumptions and the base change isomorphism is only constructed on the level of sheaves. Moreover, our theory works for higher Artin stacks as well. Our method differs from all previous approaches, as we exploit the theory of stable ∞-categories developed by Lurie. We enhance derived categories, functors, and natural isomorphisms to the level of ∞-categories and introduce ∞-categorical (co)homological descent. To handle the “homotopy coherence”, we apply the results of our previous article [26] and develop several other ∞-categorical techniques.