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Do I know what "coherent sheaf" means if I know what it means on locally Noetherian schemes?
I've been trying to convince myself that "coherent sheaf" is a natural definition. One way I might be satisfied is the following: for modules over a Noetherian ring $A$, coherent and finitely ...
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What are the merits of the different finiteness conditions on quasi-coherent sheaves?
It's my understanding that there's no disagreement about the right way to define a quasi-coherence for a sheaf $F$ of $O_X$-algebras (over a scheme, locally ringed space, or even locally ringed topos)....
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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 ...
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How to characterize Abelian sheaves that are quasi-coherent?
Let $X$ be a scheme. Suppose you are given a sheaf of Abelian groups $\mathcal{A}$ over $X$. How can you determine if $\mathcal{A}$ is the underlying Abelian sheaf of a sheaf of $O_X$-modules? In ...
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Basic question on projective bundles
Let $\mathcal{E}$ be a coherent sheaf on an irreducible scheme $S$ ($S$ can be pretty nice, say noetherian of finite type), and let $\mathbf{P}(\mathcal{E}):=\mathrm{Proj}(\mathrm{Sym}(\mathcal{E}))$ ...
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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
$\...
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When is a coherent subsheaf determined by its global sections
I am reading an article in which a proof is based on defining a subsheaf by only giving its global sections.
The exact setting is that, one has a surjective finite morphism $f:Y\to X$ between ...
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Is this a true weakening of the quasi-coherence property?
Let $R$ be a commutative Noetherian ring, and $X=$Spec$(R)$ the associated affine scheme. Let $F$ be a sheaf of $O_X$-modules. Consider the following condition
(#) For all containments $V \subseteq ...
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Compatibility of Beck Chevalley condition: sheaves
Given a (not necessarily Cartesian) square of spaces
$$\require{AMScd}\begin{CD}
X @>g>> \overline{X} \\
@VVfV @VV\overline{f}V \\
Y @>\overline{g}>> \overline{Y}
\end{CD}$$
does the ...
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existence of a coherent sheaf
I am doing algebraic geometry. My question is the following: Here $X=\mathbb{A}^1-0$, $\mathbb{A}^1 = Spec A[t]$, $A$ is a commutative, noetherian ring with unity, consider $\mathcal{O}_{Spec A}$ as $\...
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Understanding spaces is the same as understanding (sheaves of) functions on the space
I'm trying to understand Ravi Vakil's FOAG. In chapter 2 it is written:
[...] understanding spaces is the same as understanding (sheaves of) functions on the spaces, and
understanding vector bundles (...
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Local freeness of $\pi_*F(r)$ from flatness of $F$
In 'Fundamental Algebraic Geometry' by Fantechi there is a lemma in section 5.3.2, page 119:
LEMMA 5.5 Let $S$ be a noetherian scheme and let $F$ be a coherent sheaf on $\mathbb{P}^n_S$. Suppose there ...
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Direct image functor commuting with infinite direct sum of sheaves
Normally I would think this kind of question doesn't belong on overflow, but I haven't been able to find an answer anywhere else, so perhaps it is not so trivial.
Let $f: X \rightarrow Y$ be a ...
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Singularities of reflexive sheaves
I am studying reflexive sheaves (on $\mathbb{P}^3$) by the Hartshorne's paper ''Stable reflexive sheaves''. As far I understood, reflexive sheaves fail to be locally free at a finite number of points (...
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Double dual of ample sheaf
Let $X$ be a projective manifold. Then we can define ample sheaves on $X$, and many results of ample vector bundles still hold in this more general case (See K. Kubota, Ample sheaves).
Now I was ...
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flatness of restriction of structure sheaf over ring of global sections
Let $X$ be an affine scheme. $U \subseteq X$ open. Then I want to show that $\mathcal{O}_X(U)$ is flat over $\mathcal{O}_X(X)$.
But I want to prove it only by knowing the definition of structure sheaf ...
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Devissage lemma (Mumford's & Oda's AG II)
This question is part II of my proof reading of Lemma of devissage
from Mumford's & Oda's Algebraic Geometry II, findable on page 81; Theorem 6.12:
Theorem 6.12 (“Lemma of devissage”). Let $K$...
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A sheaf for factorization
Let $R$ be a commutative ring with $1$ and let $X$ be the space of connected componens of $Spec (R) $ with Zariski topology ( The boolean spectrum of $R $ )and let for each $x\in X$ there exists a ...
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Support of a coherent sheaf over a fiber product scheme
I'm trying to prove the following fact which I don't know if it is true since I am not able to find a counterexample:
Let $X,S$ be two $K$-scheme of finite type with $K$ an algebraically closed field....
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Global to local for Ext groups and Sheaves
Let $X$ be a projective variety. The sheaf $\mathcal{E}xt^{1}(\Omega_{X},\mathcal{O}_{X})$ is supported on $Sing(X)$.
Now, there should be a theorem (perhaps by Schlessinger) that says that if $X$ ...
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Hyperplane which does not contain any associated point of qc sheaf $\mathcal{F}$
I have a question about an argument on $m$-regularity
from 'Fundamental Algebraic Geometry' by Fantechi on page 114, Chapter
5.2: Castelnovo-Mumford regularity. The statement is:
Let $k$ be a field ...
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Do infinitesimal neighbourhoods help to compute the inverse images of coherent sheaves?
Let $i:Z\to X$ be a closed embedding of (projective) varieties; $S$ is a coherent sheaf on $X$. How could one compute $H^*(Z,i^\ast S)$ (I don't know whether I should write $H^\ast (Z,i^{-1}S)$ ...
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