Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2001 iii Paper 15 1 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
At a point , the complex tautological line bundle has fiber . The hyperplane line bundle is its dual, , and . On let be the tautological frame and its dual. On overlaps . The sheaf of holomorphic sections of a vector bundle of this dual bundle is the sheaf .
If a nonzero linear form cuts out the projective hyperplane , it gives a holomorphic section of with a simple zero along . Dividing a local section by gives a meromorphic function with no poles away from and at most a simple pole on . Conversely multiplication by turns such a function into a holomorphic section. These mutually inverse local constructions agree on overlaps and prove the holomorphic line bundle associated to a divisor identification
The nonnegative hyperplane twist cohomology by restriction calculation givesTo derive it from the permitted vanishing, use the hyperplane exact sequence for twisting sheaveswhere and . Local multiplication by a defining equation is injective, and restriction gives exactly its cokernel. Induct on , starting from a point, and then on . For , higher sheaf cohomology vanishes by assumption and global holomorphic functions are constant by compactness and the maximum principle. For , the long exact sequence in sheaf cohomology, the inductive vanishing for and the dimension induction on give vanishing in every positive degree andSumming this recurrence gives . Homogeneous degree- monomials give that many independent sections, so they form a basis. The printed extra equality to zero cannot hold in degree zero, already because ; the boxed calculation gives the intended dimensions.
For the differential of the projective quotient map, the differential of a smooth map is computed by applying a tangent vector to coordinate functions. Since ,ThusUnder replacing by , on a constant ambient tangent vector scales by , while a homogeneous linear form scales by . Therefore is independent of the representative. Its chart coefficients are holomorphic, so it is a global holomorphic vector field. The radial Euler vector field lies in the kernel of , either from the same formulas or because it differentiates a scaling orbit. Hence
Describe the Euler sequence on complex projective space fiberwise as well as in coordinates. At a line , the middle bundle has fiber and the holomorphic tangent bundle has fiber . Send a homomorphism to its composition with the quotient. The map from sends a scalar to that scalar times the inclusion . In homogeneous notation these maps areA local section of is a local degree-one homogeneous function on the punctured cone, so the second expression is representative-independent. Quotienting is surjective, and its kernel consists exactly of scalar inclusion maps. This proves the short exact sequence of locally free sheavesSince it is locally split, dualizing and tensoring by preserves exactness and gives the cotangent Euler sequence in homogeneous coordinatesOn global sections the last map identifies with the basis of linear forms in . Its kernel is zero. This proves the vanishing of global sections of the once-twisted projective cotangent bundle; left exactness gives .