Solution

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The affine module sheaf construction makes the remaining statements explicit. For and an -module , define
on the basis of principal open subsets. Restrictions are the natural localization maps. Equivalently, a section on an arbitrary open set is a family which near each point is represented by a single fraction , with nonvanishing throughout that neighbourhood. This locally representable family construction gives a sheaf; the usual localization gluing verifies its quasi-coherence. Its stalk is and
This last identification is precisely the standard module-localization gluing on the affine basis, not an assertion that arbitrary sheaves are determined by their global sections.
Now write , and . Let , for -modules , and let for a -module . The affine versions of the three constructions are
Here denotes restriction of scalars along , whereas the last associated sheaf lives on . To verify the tensor-product assertion, localize at every prime: both stalks are . For the direct image, , and
These equalities identify the sheaves on a basis and respect restrictions. For the pullback of a sheaf of modules, its stalk at is , exactly the stalk of . The local tensor maps are compatible, so these stalk identifications come from an actual sheaf isomorphism. Thus all three constructions are quasi-coherent in the stated affine setting.
Finally construct the natural projection formula for sheaves map by sending a local tensor to in the pulled-back module, followed by direct image. In the affine description, the target is the sheaf associated with the -module , while corresponds to . The maps
are inverse -linear maps. Localizing them commutes with every restriction, proving
No flatness assumption on or finiteness assumption on is needed.

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