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For a closed inclusion $i:X\hookrightarrow Y$, direct image sheaf formation is exact: stalks on $X$ are unchanged and stalks outside $X$ are zero. It also preserves flasque sheaves. Pushing forward a flasque resolution thus gives a resolution computing cohomology on $Y$, and its complex of global sections is identical to the original one on $X$. This proves the displayed isomorphism in every nonnegative degree.

For any point inclusion $i:\{x\}\hookrightarrow X$, the skyscraper sheaf $i_{\ast }A$ has restriction maps that are identities or maps to zero. It is flasque, so its higher sheaf cohomology vanishes and its global sections are $A$. This requires no assumption that $x$ is closed.

A morphism of sheaves of modules is surjective when the induced map on every stalk is onto. Equivalently every target section can locally be lifted. It need not be onto on global sections; the long exact sequence in sheaf cohomology describes that obstruction.

The theta divisor consists of degree-$g-1$ line bundles with a nonzero global section. It is the irreducible image of the symmetric product of a curve $C^{(g-1)}$, with its reduced Cartier divisor structure. The determinant description of the theta divisor supplies equations, multiplicities and pullbacks in families.

If finitely many $X_{f_i}$ cover $X$, the morphism ${\mathcal{O}}_X^r\to {\mathcal{O}}_X$ with coefficients $f_i$ is onto. If its kernel has vanishing first sheaf cohomology, the long exact sequence in sheaf cohomology lifts the global section $1$ to coefficients $g_i$. This turns a geometric cover into a unit ideal in the ring of global sections.