Multiplication by the homogeneous equation and restriction to its zero scheme give the structure-sheaf sequence of a hypersurface
By cohomology under a closed immersion, . The associated long exact sequence in cohomology contains
Both outer groups vanish by the cohomology of twisting sheaves on projective space, because they are intermediate cohomology groups on . Therefore
Choose a finite affine cover of the Noetherian scheme . Because is separated, every finite intersection is affine. Its inverse image under the closed immersion is also affine. By the definition of the direct image sheaf,
The Čech complexes for on and for on the induced cover are therefore identical, including their restriction maps. Both affine covers are acyclic for the relevant quasi-coherent sheaves, so the acyclic cover theorem gives
for every . This is cohomology under a closed immersion.
For , use its standard affine opens. The induced cover of is still acyclic, and its Čech complex has no cochains in degrees greater than . The cohomological dimension bound from an affine cover therefore yields