Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2018 / iii / Paper 118 / 2 / e

The tautological bundle $\mathcal{O}(-1)$ over Complex projective space has fibre over $[\ell ]$ equal to the line $\ell \subset {\mathbb{C}}^{r+1}$. Define $\mathcal{O}(1)=\mathcal{O}(-1{)}^{\ast }$ and the twisting sheaf on projective space, viewed analytically as a holomorphic line bundle, by

For ${\mathbb{CP}}^1$, use coordinates $z=Z_1/Z_0$ and $w=Z_0/Z_1=1/z$. The tautological frames $(1,z)$ and $(w,1)$ differ by $z^{-1}$, so frames $e_0,e_1$ for $\mathcal{O}(d)$ satisfy $e_1=z^d{e}_0$. A global holomorphic section is therefore described by entire functions $s_0(z),s_1(w)$ withWrite $s_0(z)={\sum }_{k\ge 0}{a}_k{z}^k$. Holomorphicity of $s_1$ at zero permits only the powers $w^{d-k}$ with $d-k\ge 0$. For $d\ge 0$, this says $s_0$ is a polynomial of degree at most $d$; for $d<0$, every coefficient must vanish. Equivalently, when $d\ge 0$ the sections are homogeneous polynomials of degree $d$ in $Z_0,Z_1$. Thus