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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 118 2 a Solution by
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Choose a flasque resolution of the sheaf of abelian groups ,A flasque sheaf has surjective restriction maps; such resolutions exist for every sheaf of abelian groups. Apply the global section functor to obtain a cochain complex. The sheaf cohomology groups areFor , the denominator is zero and . Different resolutions give canonically isomorphic groups; the resolution principle for sheaf cohomology is what permits other acyclic resolutions to compute these same groups.
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