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A coherent closed-point skyscraper
Example
Assume the Axiom of Choice, inherited from the associated-sheaf construction and the coherence theorem (The Axiom of Choice). Let be a Noetherian commutative ring (Noetherian commutative rings and modules) and let be a maximal ideal; write for the residue field and put the associated sheaf of the cyclic module (Module sheaf on an affine scheme, The associated module sheaf exists). Let be the inclusion of the one-point subspace and the skyscraper sheaf at the closed point with value (A skyscraper sheaf of abelian groups at a point). Then:
- is a coherent -module (Quasi-coherent module on a scheme): is Noetherian, so is locally Noetherian, and is cyclic, hence of finite type; by the equivalence of coherence with finite type over a locally Noetherian base (Coherent sheaves on a locally Noetherian scheme), is coherent.
- Its stalks are and the stalk at the closed point is the residue field (The stalk of an associated sheaf is the localisation, The residue field at a point of an affine scheme).
- The fibre at the closed point is (Fibre of a module sheaf at a point).
- Consequently : the sheaf is the skyscraper at the closed point, and since its one-point fibre at is by (3), it is the direct image of that fibre along the inclusion of the closed point (Closed points of an affine scheme).
Thus a single closed point can support a coherent module sheaf whose only nonzero sections live on the open neighbourhoods of that point, and on the affine base the corresponding module is the residue field.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The Axiom of Choice; a Noetherian commutative ring ; a maximal ideal ; the field ; the scheme with its distinguished opens ; the cyclic module with the class of as a generator; the associated sheaf ; the inclusion .
The associated sheaf (Module sheaf on an affine scheme, The associated module sheaf exists, Sections of the associated sheaf on basic opens, The stalk of an associated sheaf is the localisation, Quasi-coherent module on a scheme, Modules on a ringed space): is a sheaf of -modules with for every , with restriction the canonical localisation; its stalks are ; it is quasi-coherent; and .
Localisation and residue fields (Localisation commutes with quotient modules and arbitrary direct sums, Localisation at a prime ideal: , Localisation of a module at a multiplicative subset, Principal localisation , The localisation relation is an equivalence relation and fraction arithmetic is well defined, is the residue field at ): for a prime one has ; every is a unit of , so whenever ; the residue field is ; and for the principal localisation, is when the image of in is a unit and is the zero ring when in .
Maximal ideals and primes (Prime ideals and maximal ideals in a commutative ring, The prime spectrum and vanishing sets, Principal distinguished subsets of the prime spectrum, The underlying space of an affine spectrum): a maximal ideal is prime; if is prime and then by maximality, so every prime satisfies ; the points of are the primes of and .
Noetherian base and coherence (Noetherian commutative rings and modules, Locally Noetherian and Noetherian schemes, Finite type and finitely presented module sheaves, Coherent sheaves on a locally Noetherian scheme): a scheme with an affine open cover by spectra of Noetherian rings is locally Noetherian; is generated by the class of , hence of finite type; and on a locally Noetherian scheme a quasi-coherent module is coherent if and only if it is of finite type.
Fibres (Fibre of a module sheaf at a point, The residue field at a point of an affine scheme): the fibre of an -module at is , a vector space over ; a morphism of sheaves induces a -linear map on fibres.
Skyscraper sheaves (A skyscraper sheaf of abelian groups at a point): for a point of a topological space and an abelian group , the skyscraper sheaf has for opens and otherwise, the restriction between two opens containing being the identity.
Closed points (Closed points of an affine scheme): the closed points of are exactly the maximal ideals; in particular is closed in .
The Axiom of Choice is inherited from the associated-sheaf existence theorem and from the coherence theorem over the locally Noetherian base ; no further choice is made below (The Axiom of Choice).
Proof technique: direct; compute the localisations of the cyclic module at all primes, and identify the resulting sheaf with the skyscraper at the closed point.
Proof
Setup: since is Noetherian and , the scheme is locally Noetherian by [F4]; the maximal ideal is prime by [F3], so the residue field is a field and is generated by the class of , hence is of finite type; therefore is quasi-coherent by [F1] and coherent by [F4].
Stalk at the closed point: by [F1] and [F2] one has .
Stalks away from the closed point: let be a prime; by [F3] , so [F2] gives and hence .
Values of on distinguished opens: for one has by [F1]. If then the image of in the field is zero, so by [F2]; if then the image of in is a nonzero element of a field, hence a unit, and by [F2]. Thus exactly when , and is otherwise.
Fibre at the closed point: by [F5], and by step 1.2 the stalk is the field on which the maximal ideal acts by zero, so the fibre is , a one-dimensional vector space over .
Values of on arbitrary opens: let be open; the distinguished opens inside form an open cover of , and by [F1] the restriction for is the canonical localisation map , which under the identifications of step 1.4 is the identity of whenever , and is the map or otherwise. If , choose with , which exists because the distinguished opens form a basis of the topology; for the elements for and for form a compatible family, since and holds exactly when both ( is prime by [F3]), so they glue to a unique ; the map is injective because , and it is surjective because for with and any distinguished the two sections and of agree after restriction to : if then both equal in by the identity computed above, and if then as well and both are ; in the case the restriction is the identity of and hence injective, and in the case the group is by step 1.4, so in both cases ; since a section of the sheaf over is determined by its restrictions to the cover by distinguished opens, and . If , then for every distinguished (else ), so the restriction of any to each member of the covering family is zero by step 1.4 and by separatedness; hence . For opens both containing the restriction carries to because the gluing is given by the same formula over the distinguished opens inside , so under these isomorphisms it is the identity of ; consequently , compatibly with all restrictions.
Conclusion: by step 1.1 the sheaf is coherent, by steps 1.2 and 1.3 its stalk is at and zero at every other point, by step 2.1 its fibre at the closed point is , and by step 2.2 it is the skyscraper sheaf , the direct image of its one-point fibre under the inclusion of the closed point of [F7]; the example is verified.
Choice accounting: the ring , the maximal ideal , the module and the point are given data, and no chart, section or isomorphism is selected by an infinite simultaneous choice; the skyscraper identification is canonical on every open by the components exhibited in step 2.2, and the only Axiom of Choice is the inherited one recorded in [F8].
Depends on
- Coherent sheaves on a locally Noetherian scheme
- The stalk of an associated sheaf is the localisation
- Closed points of an affine scheme
- The Axiom of Choice
- Module sheaf on an affine scheme
- The associated module sheaf exists
- Sections of the associated sheaf on basic opens
- Quasi-coherent module on a scheme
- Finite type and finitely presented module sheaves
- Locally Noetherian and Noetherian schemes
- Noetherian commutative rings and modules
- Fibre of a module sheaf at a point
- The residue field at a point of an affine scheme
- $R_{\mathfrak p}/\mathfrak pR_{\mathfrak p}\cong\operatorname{Frac}(R/\mathfrak p)$ is the residue field at $\mathfrak p$
- Localisation commutes with quotient modules and arbitrary direct sums
- Localisation at a prime ideal: $R_{\mathfrak p}=(R\setminus\mathfrak p)^{-1}R$
- Localisation of a module at a multiplicative subset
- Principal localisation $R_f=\{1,f,f^2,\ldots\}^{-1}R$
- The localisation relation is an equivalence relation and fraction arithmetic is well defined
- Prime ideals and maximal ideals in a commutative ring
- The prime spectrum and vanishing sets
- Principal distinguished subsets of the prime spectrum
- The underlying space of an affine spectrum
- A skyscraper sheaf of abelian groups at a point
- Modules on a ringed space
- A sheaf on a topological space
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Sources
- The Stacks Project, Schemes, §§26.5, 26.7, 26.24 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Ravi Vakil, The Rising Sea, 29 August 2022, Chapters 6, 14, 17 (standard reference, not scraped)
- The Stacks Project, Cohomology of Schemes §30.9 (standard reference, not scraped)
- The Stacks Project, Properties of Schemes, §§28.20, 28.26 (standard reference, not scraped)