Solutions to The Rising Sea (Vakil)

Chapter 15

Section 15.1: The quasicoherent sheaf corresponding to a graded module






Exercise 15.1.A:
Give an isomorphism between the stalk of \(\widetilde{M_\bullet}\) at a point corresponding to homogeneous prime \(\pp \subset S_\bullet\) and \(((M_\bullet)_{\pp})_0\). (Remark: You can use this exercise to give an alternate definition of \(\widetilde{M}_\bullet\) in terms of "compatible stalks", c.f. Exercise 4.5.M.)



Exercise 15.1.B:
Show that \( \sim \) is an exact functor. (Hint: everything in the construction is exact.)



Exercise 15.1.C:
Show that if \(M_\bullet\) and \( M^\prime_\bullet \) agree in high enough degrees, then \(\widetilde{M} \cong \widetilde{M^\prime}\) . Then show that the map from graded \(S_\bullet\)-modules (up to isomorphism) to quasicoherent sheaves on \(\proj S_\bullet\) (up to isomorphism) is not a bijection. (Really: show this isn’t an equivalence of categories.)



Exercise 15.1.D:
Describe a map of \(S_\bullet\)-modules \(M_\bullet \to \Gamma(\proj S_\bullet , \widetilde{M_\bullet})\). (This foreshadows the "saturation map" of §15.4.5 that takes a graded module to its saturation, see Exercise 15.4.C.)



Exercise 15.1.E:
Show that if the functor \( \sim \) is applied to the exact sequence of graded \( S_\bullet \)-modules $$ \begin{CD} 0 @>>> I_\bullet @>>> S_\bullet @>>> S_\bullet / I_\bullet @>>> 0 \end{CD} $$ we obtain the closed subscheme exact sequence (13.5.4.1) for \(\proj S_\bullet / I_\bullet \hookrightarrow \proj S_\bullet\).










Section 15.2: Invertible sheaves (line bundles) on projective A-schemes






Exercise 15.2.A:
If \(S_\bullet = A[x_0,...,x_m]\), so \(\proj S_\bullet = \P^m_A\) , show \(\widetilde{S(n)_\bullet} = \OO(n)\) using transition functions (cf. §14.1). (Recall from §14.1.2 that the global sections of \(\OO(n)\) should be identified with the homogeneous degree \(n\) polynomials in \(x_0, \dots, x_m\). Can you see that in the context of this exercise?)



Exercise 15.2.B:
If \(S_\bullet\) is generated in degree 1, show that \(\OO_{\proj S_\bullet} (n)\) is an invertible sheaf.



Exercise 15.2.C:
If \(S_\bullet\) is generated in degree 1, show that \(\widetilde{M_\bullet}(n) = \widetilde{M(n)_\bullet}. (Hereafter, we can be cavalier with the placement of the "dot" in such situations.)



Exercise 15.2.D:
If \(S_\bullet\) is generated in degree 1, show that \(\OO(m + n) \cong \OO(m) \otimes \OO (n) \).










Section 15.3: Globally generated and base-point-free line bundles






Exercise 15.3.A:
Show that every quasicoherent sheaf on every affine scheme is globally generated. Show that every finite type quasi-coherent sheaf on every affine scheme is generated by a finite number of global sections. (Hint for both: for any \(A\)-module \(M\), there is a surjection onto \(M\) from a free \(A\)-module.)



Exercise 15.3.B:
Show that if quasicoherent sheaves \(\FF\) and \(\GG\) are globally generated at a point \(p\),then so is \(\FF \otimes \GG\).



Exercise 15.3.C:
Suppose \(\FF\) is a finite type quasicoherent sheaf on \(X\).
  1. Show that \(\FF\) is globally generated at \(p\) if and only if "the fiber of \(\FF\) is generated by global sections at \(p\)", i.e., the map from global sections to the fiber \(\FF_p/ \mm \FF_p\) is surjective, where \(\mm\) is the maximal ideal of \(\OO_{X,p}\). (Hint: Geometric Nakayama, Exercise 13.7.E.)
  2. Show that if \(\FF\) is globally generated at \(p\), then "\( \FF \) is globally generated near \(p\)": there is an open neighborhood \(U\) of \(p\) such that \(\FF\) is globally generated at every point of \(U\).
  3. Suppose further that \(X\) is a quasicompact scheme. Show that if \(\FF\) is globally generated at all closed points of \(X\), then \(\FF\) is globally generated at all points of \(X\). (Note that nonempty quasicompact schemes have closed points, Exercise 5.1.E.)



Exercise 15.3.D:
If \(\FF\) is a finite type quasicoherent sheaf on \(X\), and \(X\) is quasicompact, show that \(\FF\) is globally generated if and only if it is generated by a finite number of global sections



Exercise 15.3.E:
An invertible sheaf \(\LL\) on \(X\) is globally generated if and only if for any point \(p \in X\), there is a global section of \( \LL \) not vanishing at \(p\). (See Theorem 16.4.1 for why we care.)



Exercise 15.3.F:
Suppose \(s_0, \dots, s_n\) are \(n + 1\) global sections of an invertible sheaf \(\LL\) on a scheme \(X\), with no common zero. Define a corresponding map to \(\P^n\): $$ \begin{CD} X @>{[s_0, \dots, s_n]}>> \P^n \end{CD} $$ Hint: If \(U\) is an open subset on which \(\LL\) is trivial, choose a trivialization, then translate the \(s_i\) into functions using this trivialization, and use Exercise 6.3.M(a) to obtain a morphism \(U \to \P^n\). Then show that all of these maps (for different \(U\) and different trivializations) "agree", using Exercise 6.3.M(b).










Section 15.4: Quasicoherent sheaves and graded modules






Exercise 15.4.A:
Describe a morphism of \(S_0\)-modules \(M_n \to \Gamma(\proj S_\bullet, \widetilde{M(n)}_\bullet)\), extending the \(n = 0\) case of Exercise 15.1.D.



Exercise 15.4.B:
Show that \(\Gamma_\bullet(\FF)\) is a graded \(S_\bullet\)-module. (Hint: consider \(S_n \to \Gamma (\proj S_\bullet , \OO (n))\) .)



Exercise 15.4.C:
Show that the map \(M_\bullet \to Γ_\bullet ( \widetilde{M_\bullet}) \) arising from the previous two exercises is a map of \(S_\bullet\)-modules. We call this the saturation map.



Exercise 15.4.D:
  1. Show that the saturation map need not be injective, nor need it be surjective. (Hint: \(S_\bullet = k[x], M_\bullet = k[x]/(x^2)\) or \(M_\bullet = xk[x]\).)
  2. On the other hand, show that if \( S_\bullet \) is a finitely generated graded ring over a field \(S_0 = k\), and \(M_\bullet\) is finitely generated, then the saturation map is an isomorphism in large degree. In other words, show that there exists an \(n_0\) such that \(M_n \to \Gamma ( \proj S_\bullet, \widetilde{M(n)_\bullet} ) \), is an isomorphism for \( n \geq n_0 \).



Exercise 15.4.E:
Show that \(\Gamma_\bullet\) is a functor from \(\mathscr{Q}Coh_{\proj S_\bullet}\) to the category of graded \(S_\bullet\)-modules. In other words, if \(\FF \to \GG\) is a morphism of quasicoherent sheaves on \(\proj S_\bullet\) , describe the natural map \(\Gamma_\bullet \FF \to \Gamma_\bullet \GG\) , and show that such maps respect the identity and composition. Thus the saturation map can be better called the saturation functor.



Exercise 15.4.F:
Define the natural map \(\Gamma_\bullet \FF \to \FF\) as follows. First describe the map on sections over \(D(f)\). Note that sections of the left side are of the form \(m / f^n\) where \(m \in \Gamma_n \deg f(\FF)\), and \(m/f^n = m^\prime/f^{n\, prime}\) if there is some \(N\) with \(f^N(f^{n\, \prime} m − f^n m^\prime) = 0\). Sections on the right are implicitly described in Exercise 13.3.H. Show that your map behaves well on overlaps \(D(f) \cap D(g) = D(fg)\).



Exercise 15.4.G:
Show that the natural map \( \Gamma_\bullet \FF \to \FF\) is an isomorphism, by showing that it is an isomorphism of sections over \(D(f)\) for any \(f\). First show surjectivity, using Exercise 13.3.H to show that any section of \(\FF\) over \(D(f)\) is of the form \(m/f^n\) where \(m \in \Gamma_n \deg f (\FF )\). Then verify that it is injective.



Exercise 15.4.H:
Show that each closed subscheme of \(\proj S_\bullet\) arises from a homogeneous ideal \(I_\bullet \subset S_\bullet\) . (Hint: Suppose \(Z\) is a closed subscheme of \(\proj S_\bullet\) . Consider the exact sequence \(0 \to \mathscr{I}_Z \to \OO_{\proj S_\bullet} \to \OO_Z \to 0\). Apply \(\Gamma_\bullet\), and then \( \sim \). Be careful: \(\Gamma_\bullet\) is left-exact, but not necessarily exact.) This fulfills promises made in Exercises 8.2.B and 15.1.E.



Thanks for reading! 😁