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Global sections on module sheaves have ordinary sheaf cohomology as derived functors
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Choice. Let be a topological space with a sheaf of unital rings (not necessarily commutative), and let be the category of sheaves of left -modules. Then this category has enough injectives, every injective -module sheaf is flasque as an underlying sheaf of abelian groups, and for every -module sheaf the right-derived functors of global sections in satisfy where the right side is ordinary sheaf cohomology of the underlying abelian sheaf.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Axiom of Choice, a topological space , a sheaf of unital rings , and a sheaf of left -modules.
For every unital ring , every left -module embeds in an injective left -module (Module categories have enough injectives).
Stalks are exact, and the stalk is a ring-module pair (Modules on a ringed space, A sequence of abelian sheaves is exact exactly when it is exact on every stalk).
For an open inclusion , extension by zero of an -module is defined by the same support condition as for abelian sheaves; restricting the -action makes it an -module, and its stalks are on and zero off . The abelian-sheaf adjunction restricts to module morphisms, and stalkwise exactness makes this extension exact. The construction is proved in step 1.2 using Extension by zero for abelian sheaves on an open subspace, Extension by zero is left adjoint to restriction and is exact on abelian sheaves and A sequence of abelian sheaves is exact exactly when it is exact on every stalk.
Flasque sheaves of abelian groups are acyclic for global sections (Flasque abelian sheaves are Γ-acyclic).
Relative to a supplied injective resolution datum on a class , the acyclic-resolution theorem applies when the resolved object, all resolution terms, and all cycles lie in (An F-acyclic resolution, The acyclic-resolution theorem for right derived functors). For ordinary sheaf cohomology the datum is the one fixed on all of in Sheaf cohomology as right derived global sections.
Proof
For each point , choose an embedding into an injective -module by [F1]. The skyscraper sheaf has sections on opens containing and zero on opens not containing , with acting through . The natural bijection shows is injective, since taking stalks is exact by [F2]. The product of these injectives is injective: Hom into the product is the product of Hom functors, and products of exact sequences of abelian groups are exact under the stated Axiom of Choice. The diagonal map is injective on each stalk by construction. Thus has enough injectives.
Let be open and an -module. Define as the sections of whose support is closed in , using Extension by zero for abelian sheaves on an open subspace. For and such a section , let be the action of ; if vanishes on near a point of , then so does , so the support condition is preserved. The stalks are for and zero otherwise by the underlying abelian construction. The abelian-sheaf adjunction extends a module map on uniquely to an abelian-sheaf map on ; the extension is -linear on stalks in by the original module-linearity and off because its source stalk is zero. Thus is left adjoint to restriction in module sheaves. The stalk description and [F2] show that it is exact.
Let be an injective -module sheaf and let be open. A section corresponds by evaluation at to a morphism . The natural map is a monomorphism: on stalks it is the identity for points of and the map outside . Restriction preserves injectivity here because its exact left adjoint is extension by zero [F3, step 1.2]. Injectivity of extends the morphism across . The extension is determined by the image of , and . Every restriction is therefore surjective, so is flasque.
Take an injective resolution in , which exists by step 1.1. Its global-sections complex computes module-derived global sections by definition. Each underlying abelian sheaf is flasque by step 2.1 and hence -acyclic by [F4]. Use the supplied abelian-sheaf datum of [F5], whose domain is all of : the underlying , every , and every cycle are abelian sheaves and therefore belong to that domain. Forgetting the module action preserves exactness by [F2], so this is a -acyclic resolution relative to that datum. The acyclic-resolution theorem now identifies its global-sections cohomology with ; its Dependent Choice hypothesis follows from the assumed AC. Comparison of resolutions makes the identification natural in , and it preserves degree zero.
Depends on
- An F-acyclic resolution
- The Axiom of Choice
- Extension by zero for abelian sheaves on an open subspace
- Injective modules and the extension property
- Modules on a ringed space
- Sheaf cohomology as right derived global sections
- The acyclic-resolution theorem for right derived functors
- A sequence of abelian sheaves is exact exactly when it is exact on every stalk
- Extension by zero is left adjoint to restriction and is exact on abelian sheaves
- Flasque abelian sheaves are Γ-acyclic
- Module categories have enough injectives
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Sources
- The Stacks Project, Cohomology of Sheaves, Lemma 20.8.1 (standard reference, not scraped)
- The Stacks Project, Sheaves of Modules, Section 19.5 (standard reference, not scraped)