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A coherent sheaf on ${\mathbb{P}}_k^n$ is the sheaf associated with a graded module for a finite graded $k[t_0,\dots ,t_n]$-module. Choose a finite graded free resolution by the Hilbert syzygy theorem and sheafify it; exactness of localization preserves exactness. All terms are finite sums of twisting sheaves on projective space. Twisting sufficiently positively makes every term acyclic in positive degree, and dimension shifting in long exact sequences in sheaf cohomology proves Serre vanishing. The graded-module description is supplied by Stacks Project, Section 30.15.

The direct image of a coherent sheaf under a closed immersion puts $\mathcal{G}=f_{\ast }\mathcal{F}$ in the category of coherent sheaves on ${\mathbb{P}}_k^n$. By sheaf cohomology under a closed inclusion and the supplied compatibility of twisting with direct image,Here is a proof of the required Serre vanishing on projective space. A coherent sheaf on ${\mathbb{P}}_k^n$ is the sheaf associated with a graded module for a finite graded $k[t_0,\dots ,t_n]$-module. Equivalently, it has a presentation by finite sums of twisting sheaves. Use a finite twisting resolution of a coherent sheaf on projective space: resolve the graded module by a finite graded free resolution, using the Hilbert syzygy theorem, and sheafify; exactness of localization preserves the resolution. Its terms are finite sums of $\mathcal{O}(a)$.

Choose $d$ sufficiently large that all twists $a+d$ occurring in these finitely many terms are nonnegative. The cohomology of twisting sheaves on projective space then vanishes in every positive degree for every resolution term. In a short exact sequence $0\to {\mathcal{K}}_{j+1}\to {\mathcal{E}}_j\to {\mathcal{K}}_j\to 0$, with ${\mathcal{K}}_0=\mathcal{G}$, the long exact sequence in sheaf cohomology identifies $H^p({\mathcal{K}}_j(d))$ with $H^{p+1}({\mathcal{K}}_{j+1}(d))$ for $p>0$. Iterating to the final acyclic term provesThe standard graded-module description used here is given in Stacks Project, Section 30.15; the vanishing follows from the displayed finite-resolution argument.

With the graded shift convention $S(n{)}_d=S_{n+d}$, this is the sheaf associated with a graded module $S(n)$. Under the degree-one generation condition for Proj, it is an invertible sheaf: on $D_{+}(f)$ with $\mathrm{deg}f=1$, multiplication by $f^n$ freely generates its local module for every integer $n$. Without that hypothesis, it need not be invertible. The twisting sheaf on projective space is the standard special case. Stacks Project, Section 27.10 records the hypotheses and local trivializations.