# Difference between a stalk of a sheaf and a fiber of a vector bundle

Is there an analogy between fibers $\pi^{-1} ( x )$ of a vector bundle $\pi : E \to X$, and the stalk $\mathcal{F}_x$ of a sheaf $\mathcal{F}$ défined by : $\mathcal{F}_x = \displaystyle \lim \mathcal{F} ( U )$ : the direct limit over all open subsets of $X$ containing the given point $x$ ? Thanks a lot.

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Please consider accepting some answers to your previous questions. People will be less willing to respond if they think you won't appreciate their answers anyway. – Gregor Bruns Dec 19 '12 at 12:58
I don't know how to do it, can you tell me how to do it please ?. Il don't speak and i don't undertand well english, i'm a moroccan men, sorry. – Bryan Dec 19 '12 at 13:04
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Ok, i did it. Thank you. :) – Bryan Dec 19 '12 at 13:23

The stalk of a sheaf $\mathscr{F}$ at a point $x$ is naturally isomorphic the fibre of the espace étalé over $x$. However, the espace étalé is in general a very strange space and is very rarely a vector bundle.
For example, let $\mathscr{T}_M$ be the sheaf of sections of the tangent bundle $T M \to M$ of a manifold (or smooth variety, if you prefer). The fibre of $T M \to M$ over a point $x$ of $M$ is automatically a vector space (by definition!) but the stalk of $\mathscr{T}_M$ at $x$ is in general only a module over the local ring $\mathscr{O}_x$, which need not be a field. More explicitly, the stalk $(\mathscr{T}_M)_x$ consists of germs of vector fields at $x$, while the fibre $T_x M$ consists of tangent vectors at $x$.
Addendum. In the algebraic context, we can get something akin to the fibre by taking the stalk $\mathscr{F}_x$ and tensoring it with the residue field $\kappa (x)$. As far as I know this is not something that can be defined as a direct limit. The fibre of a bundle is a limit in the general sense of category theory – it is just the pullback of the bundle along the inclusion of a point – but I don't think it's useful to think of it that way.
Thank you very much @Zhen Lin. Can you tell me please, if it's true that the fiber $E_x = \pi^{-1} ( x )$ of a vector bundle $\pi : E \to X$ can be defined as the direct limit of maps $U \to E_{U} = \pi^{-1} ( U )$ like the stalk of a sheaf $\mathcal{F}_x$ ? In this case, what is the direct system which define this direct limit ? Thanks a lot. – Bryan Dec 19 '12 at 13:16