Skip to main content

All Questions

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
1 vote
0 answers
91 views

Continuity of motivic cohomology under direct limit

Given the motivic complexes $\mathbb{Z}(n)$ on the big Zariski site of finite type smooth $k$-schemes denoted by $FinSm_k$, we pullback it to the smooth $k$-schemes i.e. $Sm_k$. For example for a ...
user127776's user avatar
  • 5,901
1 vote
0 answers
199 views

Künneth formula for local cohomology with support

In "Differential operators on the flag varieties" (http://www.numdam.org/article/AST_1981__87-88__43_0.pdf) by Brylinski, he uses on page 53 a Künneth formula for local cohomology with ...
KKD's user avatar
  • 473
5 votes
2 answers
527 views

Divisors whose restriction is big

Let $f:X\rightarrow Y$ be a flat morphism of smooth projective varieties, and $\mathcal{L}$ an effective and ample line bundle on $Y$. For a divisor $A\in H^0(Y,\mathcal{L})$ set $X_A := f^{-1}(A)$. ...
user avatar
6 votes
2 answers
524 views

Global sections of multiples of a divisor

Let $D$ be an integral divisor on a smooth projective variety $X$. Consider the multiples $mD$ of $D$ for $m\geq 0$. Clearly, $h^0(X,mD) = 1$ for $m = 0$. Is there any example where $h^0(X,mD) = 0$ ...
Puzzled's user avatar
  • 8,998
7 votes
1 answer
334 views

Extending $G$-torsors on open subsets of affine space

Let $k$ be a characteristic zero field, $V \subset \mathbb{A}^n_k$ an open subscheme, $G$ a split reductive group over $k$ and $T$ a $G$-torsor over $V$ (in the etale, equivalently fppf topology). ...
Jef's user avatar
  • 984
8 votes
1 answer
2k views

Cohomology of Grothendieck topology

My naïve cartoon picture of the construction of étale cohomology is this: start with a scheme, associate to it a Grothendieck topology (making a site). A functor from the Grothendieck topology to ...
Stefan Witzel's user avatar
6 votes
2 answers
632 views

Geometric meaning of coherent sheaves $\mathcal{F} \otimes \mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{P}^n}(d)$ over $\mathbb{P}^n$

Maybe it sounds like a silly question but I'm not able to figure out in my head the geometric meaning of "twisting" vector bundles (or more generaly coherent sheaf) over $\mathbb{P}^n$. I ...
gigi's user avatar
  • 1,343
6 votes
0 answers
1k views

Intuition behind exceptional inverse image?

The story is probably well-known: given a map $f:X\to Y$ of spaces (say schemes, but there are many other contexts), we have two classical operations between sheaves on $X$ and those on $Y$: the ...
Wojowu's user avatar
  • 28.2k
4 votes
0 answers
583 views

Etale cohomology of a nodal (cuspidal) curve

Let $k$ be a separably closed field, and $X/k$ be a curve (not necessarily complete) with a single singularity, a simple node $x$. Suppose $\ell$ is a prime number invertible in $k$, how do we compute ...
Yuan Yang's user avatar
  • 547
2 votes
0 answers
201 views

Higher cohomology of projective bundles

Let $C$ be a curve and $L$ be a line bundle with sufficiently large degree. Let $C_p$ denote the $p$-th symmetric product of $C$, which consists of all the effective divisors of degree $p$ on $C$. Let ...
Li Li's user avatar
  • 439
4 votes
2 answers
484 views

Removing Noetherian condition from cohomology and base change

This question is related to a question I asked a few days ago. Since there seems to be no (at least for me) satisfying reference for cohomology and base change as stated by Vakil in his script in ...
Fabian Ruoff's user avatar
6 votes
1 answer
557 views

Cohomology and base change without Noetherian assumption

In the "The Rising Sea" by Vakil one can find the base change theorem for proper morphisms over a locally Noetherian base (28.1.6). He later indicates (28.2.M) how one could exchange the ...
Fabian Ruoff's user avatar
3 votes
0 answers
641 views

fppf/ etale Cohomology calculate with Cech cohomology

Let $R$ be a commutative ring with one and $S$ commutative faithfully flat $R$-algebra (that is there is a faithfully flat ring map let $\phi: R \to S$). Then the so called Amitsur complex $R \to S^{\...
user267839's user avatar
  • 5,986
6 votes
2 answers
445 views

Representability of flat cohomology by a group scheme

In his paper "Supersingular K3 surfaces", Artin states the following theorem (Theorem 3.1) without proof: Let $\pi:X \to S = \mathrm{Spec}(k)$ be a smooth proper surface with $k$ an ...
naf's user avatar
  • 10.5k
3 votes
2 answers
371 views

Extension between vector bundles inducing non-zero map on cohomology

Let $X$ be a projective variety over a field $k$ equipped with a very ample line bundle $\mathcal{O}_X(1)$. Suppose that $E, F$ are locally free sheaves of finite rank on $X$ and $c\in \mathrm{Ext}^i(...
SashaP's user avatar
  • 7,377
6 votes
2 answers
789 views

Reference request: Kleiman's proof of Snapper's Lemma

On page 4 of Nitin Nitsure's paper Construction of Hilbert and Quot Schemes, the author refers to the fact that Hilbert polynomials are indeed polynomials as a special case of Snapper's Lemma, see &...
The Thin Whistler's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
258 views

Automorphisms of Frobenius liftings and degeneration of the Hodge-de Rham spectral sequence

I am still studying Deligne and Illusie's paper (https://eudml.org/doc/143480), and I am again stuck, this time on pages 262/263. Assume $X\longrightarrow S$ is a smooth morphism of $\mathbb{F}_{p}$-...
The Thin Whistler's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
332 views

Degeneration of Hodge-de Rham spectral sequence, exactness of a pairing and the trace morphism

If $X\longrightarrow S$, where $S=\operatorname{Spec}(k)$, is a proper smooth morphism of dimension $p$ between $\mathbb{F}_{p}$ schemes with Frobenius $F$, then there is an exact pairing $\wedge:\...
The Thin Whistler's user avatar
2 votes
1 answer
279 views

Help about "Varieties with small Dual Varieties" by L.Ein

I'm studying the paper "Varieties with small Dual Varieties" by L.Ein and in the construction he gives about the $10-$dimensional spinor variety $S_4 \subset \mathbb{P}^{15}$ I'm finding ...
gigi's user avatar
  • 1,343
1 vote
1 answer
454 views

Relationship between $H^1(X, \mathbb{T})$ and complex line bundles

Let $X$ be a compact metric space and consider the sheaf cohomology group $H^1(X, \mathbb{T})$. From a class in $H^1(X, \mathbb{T})$, I can get a principal $\mathbb{T}$-bundle over $X$ and from this, ...
Francine Laporte's user avatar
3 votes
0 answers
446 views

Sheaf cohomology on the formal completion of $\mathbb{P}^1_k$ at its north pole

Let $k$ be a field and let $\mathbb{P}^1_k$ be the projective line over $k$. Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a coherent sheaf on $\mathbb{P}^1_k$. The curve $\mathbb{P}^1_k$ is recovered by the two affine ...
Stabilo's user avatar
  • 1,479
1 vote
0 answers
469 views

Dimension of global holomorphic sections of a line bundle

Let $K$ be the canonical line bundle of a compact Riemann surface $M$ of genus $g$. Consider the pull back of $K$ on $M \times M$ via projection on the first factor. What is the dimension of the space ...
Roch's user avatar
  • 35
1 vote
0 answers
104 views

$L^r_M = i_* \circ \hat{L}^{r-1}_M \circ i^*$ by the projection formula and the Poincare duality

This is a question arising when I am reading M. A. A. de Cataldo, L. Migliorini - The Hard Lefschetz Theorem and the topology of semismall maps, Ann. sci. École Norm. Sup., Serie 4 35 (2002) 759-772. ...
XT Chen's user avatar
  • 1,168
4 votes
0 answers
211 views

Does cohomology and base change hold if supported at a point?

I have a flat, quasicompact, and separated map $p : X \to \mathbb{A}^1$ and I know that $R^i p_* \mathcal{O}_X$ vanishes everywhere except possibly $0 \in \mathbb{A}^1$. Q1: Does "cohomology and ...
Leo Herr's user avatar
  • 1,104
3 votes
1 answer
556 views

Elementary way to compute Hodge numbers of Grassmanian

I know that by using Hodge decomposition and the fact that Schubert cells are Hodge cycles you can compute the Hodge numbers of Grassmanian but is there a more elementary way to compute sheaf ...
ali's user avatar
  • 1,093
10 votes
0 answers
964 views

intuition about perverse sheaves

firstly, I would know if my very basic intuition on perverse sheaves is correct . secondly, I would have some clarification in what perverse sheaves behaves better than regular sheaves . my intuition ...
Amos Kaminski's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
160 views

Can morphisms of Mayer-Vietoris triangles be completed into a $3\times 3$ square?

Let $(X,\mathcal{O}_X)$ be a topological ringed space and $(U,V)$ be an open covering of $X$ (i.e. $U$ and $V$ are two open subsets of $X$ such that $U\cup V=X$). Let $\mathcal{F}$ and $\mathcal{F}'$ ...
Stabilo's user avatar
  • 1,479
4 votes
1 answer
289 views

Yoga on coherent flat sheaves $\mathcal{F}$ over projective space $\mathbb{P}^n$

I'm reading Mumfords's Lectures on Curves on an Algebraic Surface (jstor-link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1b9x2g3) and I found in Lecture 7 (RESUME OF THE COHOMOLOGY OF COHERENT SHEAVES ON $\...
user267839's user avatar
  • 5,986
2 votes
0 answers
405 views

Cohomology of a family of twisted cubic curves (Hartshorne III, 12.9.2)

I'm trying to understand following Example in Hartshorne (Chapter III, Example 9.8.2 & Example 12.9.2): Let $X_1 \subset \mathbb{P}^{3}$ be a twisted cubic curve not containing the point $(0:...:1)...
user267839's user avatar
  • 5,986
4 votes
2 answers
1k views

Sheaf cohomology commutes with colimits of sheaves

Let $X$ be a Noetherian scheme over a Noetherian ring $R$ and $(F_{\alpha})_{\alpha \in I}$ a direct system of $O_X$-module sheaves on $X$. I'm looking for source literature where I can find a proof ...
user267839's user avatar
  • 5,986
6 votes
0 answers
637 views

Calculation in prismatic cohomology

In the standard references for prismatic cohomology, most theorems are proved in a local context (i.e. with completeness assumptions), and the devissage to the global case (i.e. smooth proper ...
Vitay's user avatar
  • 91
1 vote
0 answers
161 views

Surjectivity of multiplicative map (in more specific case)

(I have asked the question Surjectivity of multiplicative map. I ask here the more specific case.) Let $S$ be a smooth complex algebraic surface, and $D$ be a divisor on $S$ such that $D^2>0$ and $...
Y. M.'s user avatar
  • 111
1 vote
0 answers
56 views

local acyclicity when restricting to an hypersurface

Let $X$ be a smooth scheme over $\mathbb{C}$ and a constructible sheaf $K$ of complex vector spaces on $X\times\mathbb{A}^1$ and a function $g:X\rightarrow \mathbb{A}^1$. Suppose that $K$ is locally ...
prochet's user avatar
  • 3,472
2 votes
0 answers
136 views

A infinity structure on Yoneda Ext group

I am currently trying to control an $A_\infty$-algebra of the form $\mathrm{Ext}_X(F\oplus F'[2n-2],F\oplus F'[2n-2])$ where $X$ is a nice enough scheme and $F,F'$ are sheaves that are NOT locally ...
Felix's user avatar
  • 213
1 vote
1 answer
1k views

Injectivity of the cohomology map associated to the pullback of line bundles

Let $f:X\to Y$ be a flat, surjective, smooth morphism between smooth algebraic varieties (over $\mathbb C$). We assume that $f$ has relative dimension $n$ and we assume also that $\dim Y\ge 2$ (just ...
manifold's user avatar
  • 321
1 vote
1 answer
2k views

Pullback map on global sections surjective

Let $X,Y$ be two irreducible, projective $k$-schemes. $k$ is assumed to be algeraically closed. Consider a dominant morphism $f: X \to Y$ between them which is not an isomorphism! Let $\mathcal{L}$ ...
user267839's user avatar
  • 5,986
1 vote
0 answers
191 views

Group cohomology of sheaves under closed immersion

Suppose $X$ is a scheme over Spec $\mathbb{Z}$, and $p$ is a non-zero prime in $\mathbb{Z}$. Then we have a closed immersion from the special fibre $i_p: X_p \rightarrow X$. If $\mathscr{F}$ is a ...
OldStudentL's user avatar
6 votes
1 answer
761 views

The Yoneda pairing, hypercohomology, and cup product

Let $\mathcal{F}$ and $\mathcal{G}$ be coherent analytic sheaves on $\mathbb{P}^n$. Let $\mathcal{F}_\bullet$ be a locally free resolution of $\mathcal{F}$. In Principles of Algebraic Geometry by ...
Svinto's user avatar
  • 294
2 votes
1 answer
385 views

Very weak Riemann-Roch on curves (by J. Kollar)

I have a question on an unequality used in the proof of the Very weak Riemann-Roch on curves in Janos Kollar's Lecture on Resolution of Singularities (page 14): 1.13 (Very weak Riemann-Roch on curves)...
user267839's user avatar
  • 5,986
3 votes
1 answer
460 views

Does local cohomology commute with pullback?

Let $Y$ be a topological spaces and $Z \subset Y$ be locally closed, i.e. $Z=V \cap U^c$ for $U,V \subset Y$ open. For any abelian sheaf $\mathcal{F}$ on $Y$ let $\Gamma_Z(Y,\mathcal{F}):=\ker(\...
KKD's user avatar
  • 473
8 votes
0 answers
257 views

Global functions on a product of schemes over artinian ring

For a morphism of schemes $f:X\to S$ with $S=\text{Spec}(R)$ affine, let's write $A(X)=H^0(X,\mathcal{O}_X)$. I'm interested in the morphism of $R$-algebras $$ c:A(X)\otimes_R A(Y)\to A(X\times_SY) $$ ...
Matthieu Romagny's user avatar
3 votes
0 answers
188 views

Sheaf cohomology of the complement of a schubert variety

Let $k$ be a field, $d,n \in \mathbb{N}$ and denote by $Gr(d,n)$ the Grassmannian, which parameterizes the $d$-dimensional linear subspaces of $n$-dimensional $k$-vector space, considered as a ...
KKD's user avatar
  • 473
8 votes
1 answer
506 views

Does the sheaf $\mathcal{O}^*$ on a complex manifold have an acyclic cover?

Let $X$ be a complex manifold and let $\mathcal{O}^*$ be the sheaf nonvanishing holomorphic functions on it. Does it have an acyclic cover? That is, a cover for which all open sets and all ...
Josh Lackman's user avatar
  • 1,198
1 vote
1 answer
415 views

Multiplicative structure for sheaf cohomology of flag varieties

Let $F,F'$ be two locally free sheaves on a smooth complex algebraic variety. There is a cup-product $H^i(X, F) \otimes H^j(X,F') \to H^{i+j}(X,F \otimes F')$. In particular if $F$ is the sheaf of ...
Nicolas Hemelsoet's user avatar
8 votes
1 answer
623 views

Can one determine the trace map for a nonsingular projective variety explicitly?

I've never understood how one would actually go about computing a trace map associated with the canonical sheaf on a smooth projective variety, if it's even possible. Hartshorne proves that the ...
forget this's user avatar
5 votes
0 answers
268 views

Coherent cohomological dimension and affine morphisms

For simplicity, all varieties in this question are quasiprojective varieties over an algebraically closed field of characteristic $0$. The coherent cohomological dimension $cd(X)$ of a variety $X$ is ...
Linda's user avatar
  • 59
4 votes
1 answer
244 views

Boundness of torsion in $R^i\pi_*\mathcal F$ for a smooth $\pi:X\rightarrow S$

Let $\pi:X\rightarrow S$ be a smooth scheme over $S$ and let's assume for simplicity that $S=\mathrm{Spec} R$ is affine, Noetherian and regular. Let $\mathcal F$ be a coherent sheaf on $X$ and let's ...
user42024's user avatar
  • 790
1 vote
0 answers
152 views

What is the smallest number $d$ such that $H^1(X,\pi^*\mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{P}_k^1}(d))$ vanishes?

Let $X$ be a reduced projective scheme of pure dimension 1 over the field $k$. Let $\pi: X \to \mathbb{P}_k^1$ be a finite, flat and surjective morphism onto the projective line. What is the ...
windsheaf's user avatar
  • 435
4 votes
0 answers
240 views

Exact sequence in example in Grothendieck's Tohoku paper resulting from the Cech-to-derived-functor spectral sequence

Grothendieck gives in his Tohoku paper in example 3.8.3 an example for that $\check{\mathrm{H}}^{2}(X,\mathcal{F}) \neq \mathrm{H}^{2}(X,\mathcal{F})$. In the beginning he states that there exisits ...
mathcourse's user avatar
6 votes
1 answer
284 views

Formal character of local cohomology groups with support in Schubert cells

Let $k$ be a field of characteristic zero, $G$ a connected semi-simple algebraic group over $k$ and $B$ a fixed Borel subgroup of $G$ with maximal torus $T$. Also denote by $W$ the Weyl-group of $G$. ...
KKD's user avatar
  • 473