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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 iii Paper 16 3 iv Solution by
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Take the projective line and the coherent sheaves and , where the latter is a twisting sheaf on projective space. Both are line bundles, so each stalk is a free rank-one -module and therefore at every point.
They are nevertheless not isomorphic. On the standard charts with coordinates and , choose frames of with . A global section would give polynomials and satisfyingThe left side has only nonnegative powers of , and the right side only strictly negative powers. Thus both vanish, giving . For the structure sheaf, the corresponding equality is , whose solutions are precisely the constants. HenceA morphism of sheaves which is an isomorphism on all stalks would be an isomorphism; this example only asserts the existence of separate stalk isomorphisms, not that they come from one morphism of sheaves.
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