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An ${\mathcal{O}}_X$-module $\mathcal{F}$ is a quasi-coherent sheaf when every affine open $V=\mathrm{Spec}A\subseteq X$ has $\mathcal{F}{|}_V\cong \tilde{M}$ for some $A$-module $M$. For a morphism $f:X\to Y$, its direct image sheaf iswhile the pullback of a sheaf of modules is

If $i:Z\hookrightarrow X$ is a closed immersion of Noetherian schemes, then on an affine open $V=\mathrm{Spec}A\subseteq X$ one has $Z\cap V=\mathrm{Spec}(A/I)$. The restriction of $i_{\ast }{\mathcal{O}}_Z$ corresponds to the cyclic $A$-module $A/I$, so it is finitely generated. Hence $i_{\ast }{\mathcal{O}}_Z$ is a coherent sheaf; more generally this is the direct image of a coherent sheaf under a closed immersion.

Coherence need not survive an arbitrary pushforward. Letbe the open immersion. The sheaf ${\mathcal{O}}_{D(x)}$ is coherent, butis not a finitely generated $k[x]$-module. Therefore $j_{\ast }{\mathcal{O}}_{D(x)}$ is not coherent.