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Given a smooth variety $X$ and two smooth subvarieties $Y_{1},Y_{2} \subset X$ with smooth intersection $Z=Y_{1} \cap Y_{2}$, I'd like to compute $\mathcal{Ext}^{i}_{X}(\mathcal{O}_{Y_{1}},\mathcal{O}_{Y_{2}})$ . Something that I am reading seems to suggest that the answer should be $\Omega^{i}_Z$ , or at least something in terms of the normal bundle of $Z$ in $X$ . But I don't see this myself.

flag	asked Feb 27 2012 at 17:26 A. Pascal 789●3●7

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See Hartshorne, proof of Theorem III 7.11 - there he computes ${\scr E}xt^r(\mathcal{O}_{Y_1}, \omega_X)$ by applying $Hom(-, \Omega_X)$ to the Koszul complex of $\mathcal{O}_{Y_1}$. The Koszul complex exists only locally, but then he shows that these local calculations glue together. I think you can apply the same argument to $\mathcal{O}_{Y_2}$ in place of $\omega_X$. – Piotr Achinger Feb 27 2012 at 18:26

Tony Pantev · Answer 1 · 2012-02-29 13:47:45Z UTC

If $c$ is the codimension of $Z$ in $Y_{2}$, then $$\mathcal{E}xt^{i}_{X}(\mathcal{O}_{Y_{1}},\mathcal{O}_{Y_{2}}) = \wedge^{c} N_{Z/Y_{2}}\otimes \wedge^{i -c} \left( N_{Z/X}/N_{Z/Y_{2}}\right).$$ You can see this by Hom-ing one Koszul complex into another. You can find the calculation e.g. in Appendix A.3 of this paper of Katz and Sharpe.

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