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Positive canonical twists on projective Cohen–Macaulay curves
Statement
Assume AC and DC. Let be a projective pure CM curve over a field , with and canonical module . If is globally generated and nontrivial, . If is very ample with , then is globally generated. These statements allow nonreduced .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A projective pure Cohen--Macaulay curve over a field with and canonical module , a globally generated nontrivial invertible sheaf on , and in the generation part a very ample with .
cor-cohen-macaulay-modules-have-no-embedded-associated-primes. Under the hypotheses of lem-associated-primes-of-cohen-macaulay-module-have-full-dimension, every associated prime of is minimal in . Thus has no embedded associated primes. (Cohen--Macaulay modules have no embedded associated primes)
cor-flat-local-depth-additivity. Assume the Axiom of Choice. For a flat local homomorphism of Noetherian local rings, (Depth is additive for a flat local homomorphism)
def-axiom-of-choice. The Axiom of Choice (AC) is the following statement. > Every family of nonempty sets has a choice function > (def-choice-function). Written out: for every set all of whose members are nonempty, there exists a function with domain satisfying for all . (The Axiom of Choice)
def-degree-invertible-sheaf-proper-dimension-one. Assume the Axiom of Choice, inherited from the Euler-characteristic supplier below (The Axiom of Choice). Let be a field (def-field) and let be a proper -scheme (def-proper-morphism) whose underlying topological space is Noetherian of dimension at most one (def-dimension-noetherian-topological-space, def-locally-noetherian-and-noetherian-scheme). (Degree of an invertible sheaf on a proper one-dimensional scheme)
def-dependent-choice. Let be a set and let be a binary relation on . Call entire on when The Axiom of Dependent Choice, written , is the following statement. (The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an -indexed chain)
lem-finite-closed-immersion-derived-coinduction-adjunction. Assume AC. For a finite homomorphism of Noetherian rings and , the complex has its natural -action and is right adjoint to restriction of scalars. (Derived adjunction for finite rings and closed immersions)
lem-projective-pure-cm-dualizing-complex-concentration. Assume AC. If is projective over a field, Cohen–Macaulay and pure of dimension , its normalized dualizing complex has the canonical concentration For , The sheaf is coherent, has support , and is CM. (Concentration of the projective dualizing complex on a pure CM scheme)
lem-surface-flat-base-change-coherent-cohomology-by-cech. Assume AC and DC. For a quasi-compact separated scheme over a ring , a quasi-coherent sheaf and a flat -algebra , the canonical maps are isomorphisms for every . No flatness of over is required. (Flat base change for quasi-coherent surface cohomology by Čech)
thm-cohomology-projective-space-twisting-sheaves. Assume the Axiom of Choice (The Axiom of Choice). Let be a commutative ring with (def-commutative-ring), let , let and let be relative projective space (def-relative-projective-space-standard-charts, def-polynomial-ring-on-a-family-of-indeterminates), with twisting sheaf (Cohomology of O(d) on projective space)
thm-nakayama-lemma. Assume the Axiom of Choice. Let be a commutative ring, let satisfy , and let be a finitely generated left -module. If , then . (Assuming the Axiom of Choice, Nakayama's lemma)
thm-serre-duality-for-coherent-sheaves-on-projective-cm-scheme. Assume AC. Let be a field and let be a projective, pure -dimensional Cohen–Macaulay -scheme. Let be its normalized dualizing complex, and let be its trace. (Serre duality for coherent sheaves on a projective Cohen–Macaulay scheme)
Proof
Serre duality and canonical-module homothety identify with , so the vanishing statement is equivalent to the vanishing of for globally generated nontrivial .
If and generate , then some product is nonzero, since otherwise would annihilate all local generators and hence vanish; the nonzero scalar product exhibits as a trivialization of , whence , contradicting nontriviality.
For the generation statement, pass to an algebraic closure : flat Cech base change preserves , the degree and global generation, the finite free ambient resolutions identify the base change of with the canonical module of , and pure Cohen--Macaulayness survives because flat-local depth additivity applies with zero-dimensional Cohen--Macaulay fibres and unchanged dimension.
Fix a closed point of . Since is very ample over the infinite algebraically closed field, there is a hyperplane section vanishing at and nonzero at every generic point of : the hyperplanes through containing a fixed positive-dimensional component form a proper linear subspace of the parameter space, and finitely many such subspaces do not cover it.
Cohen--Macaulayness excludes embedded associated points, so the section is regular; let with . Cartier coinduction from this two-term resolution gives with finite-module duality at each Artinian stalk, and by the multiplication-by- sequence and the Euler-characteristic description of the degree.
Put . The sequence has quotient of dimension at least two, while ; let be the subsheaf generated by the global sections of together with the image of . A global section of has nonzero image in , since the boundary map has one-dimensional target.
If , then is an isomorphism, and Serre duality represents by morphisms to ; the resulting map composed with is the identity by homothety and its nonzero action on . Then splits as plus a nonzero finite-support quotient, which would be a nonzero finite-support subsheaf of the Cohen--Macaulay sheaf , impossible. Hence .
If , the long exact sequence would surject onto the nonzero finite-support global sections of the quotient; this map is zero because every global section of lies in by construction. Hence .
The image of in is , so the stalk at of the quotient of by the subsheaf generated by global sections is times itself with ; Nakayama at the Artinian stalk makes that quotient zero at . Since was an arbitrary closed point, is globally generated over , and generation descends along the faithfully flat field extension.
The Axiom of Choice and the Axiom of Dependent Choice are inherited from the duality and base-change suppliers; the argument nowhere assumes that is reduced or geometrically integral.
Remarks
- The two statements are proved together: vanishing is the Hom-form of Serre duality, and generation is reduced to a Nakayama computation at an arbitrary point after splitting off .
- The base change to the algebraic closure is used only to find hyperplane sections avoiding finitely many generic points; both conclusions descend.
Depends on
- Cohen--Macaulay modules have no embedded associated primes
- Depth is additive for a flat local homomorphism
- The Axiom of Choice
- Degree of an invertible sheaf on a proper one-dimensional scheme
- The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an $\mathbb{N}$-indexed chain
- Derived adjunction for finite rings and closed immersions
- Concentration of the projective dualizing complex on a pure CM scheme
- Flat base change for quasi-coherent surface cohomology by Čech
- Cohomology of O(d) on projective space
- Assuming the Axiom of Choice, Nakayama's lemma
- Serre duality for coherent sheaves on a projective Cohen–Macaulay scheme
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