Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2024/iii/paper-126/2/iv/solution

Take an affine open subscheme . Properness and flatness survive base change, and is reduced because is reduced. A bounded complex of finite locally free modules computes the cohomology of on .
If some were nonzero, choose the largest such . All groups above degree would vanish, while every fiber group in degree vanishes by hypothesis. Part (iii) would force , a contradiction. Hence
for every affine and every . These groups compute the sections of the higher direct images over affine opens, so for all , including when . The Leray spectral sequence now gives

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