Direct-image tensor comparison 2026-10-06
Tensoring sections on gives a balanced pairing of the two direct image sheaves on . The universal property of the tensor product of modules and sheafification produce the displayed morphism. Composing with the pullback-direct-image adjunction unit gives the projection formula for sheaves. The comparison itself need not be an isomorphism.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2015 iii Paper 16 1 Solution 2026-10-06
The opening change-of-rings tensor quotient sends to . The target pairing is bilinear and -balanced because . On the source, let act through the first factor; commutativity makes that action compatible with the -balancing relations, and the map is -linear. It is surjective: the target is the quotient imposing the additional relations for every . The construction commutes with module homomorphisms in both variables.
The pullback-direct-image adjunction unit is obtained locally by pulling a section to and sending it to in . These maps respect restrictions and the -actions, hence defineFor , multiplication identifies with , and is precisely the structure morphism .
To construct the direct-image tensor comparison, on send , with and , to its tensor section of . This pairing is -balanced through and is compatible with restrictions. The universal property of the tensor product of modules and sheafification therefore giveApply this with after tensoring the unit with . The composite is the map in the projection formula for sheaves. If , then , and the composite identifies withthe identity on the components. Thus it is an isomorphism for a locally free sheaf of finite rank. Neither nor was assumed quasi-coherent.