Line bundle Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A line bundle on a scheme is a locally free sheaf of rank one. Its global sections can define a morphism to projective space when they have no common zero.
The -module is a locally free sheaf of finite rank if every has an open neighborhood and a finite integer for which
The rank is locally constant and is therefore constant on each connected component.
The adjunction morphism , together with , gives
Adjunction between the inverse image sheaf and direct image sheaf turns this into the projection formula for sheaves morphism
On local sections it sends a pure tensor over to over .
Whether this morphism is an isomorphism is local on . If for finite , its restriction becomes the canonical identification
Thus the projection-formula morphism is an isomorphism whenever is locally free of finite rank.
Projection formula for sheaves Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For a morphism of ringed spaces, there is a natural morphism
It is an isomorphism when is a locally free sheaf of finite rank, because the claim is local and then reduces to distributivity over a finite direct sum.