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Quasicoherent modules are filtered unions of coherent subsheaves and cohomology commutes with these colimits

Statement

Assume the Axiom of Choice. Let X=G/B be the projective flag variety of Complex semisimple algebraic group, Borel, and flag variety, and let M be a quasi-coherent OX-module. Then M is the filtered union of its coherent OX-submodules. If M=lim→⁡jFj is any filtered colimit of quasi-coherent modules, then for every q≥0 the canonical map lim→⁡jHq(X,Fj)⟶Hq(X,M) is an isomorphism.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The Axiom of Choice, the projective flag variety X, a quasi-coherent module M, and, for the second assertion, a filtered diagram Fj in QCoh⁡(X) with colimit M.

[F1]

X is a Noetherian, quasi-compact separated scheme; its highest-weight orbit construction embeds it as a closed subvariety of a projective space, so the restricted O(1) is very ample and its standard opens give a finite affine cover (A semisimple flag variety is smooth and projective, Projective orbit constructions for G/B and G/P_alpha, Relative very ampleness in the finite projective-space convention).

[F2]

On an affine open Spec⁡A, quasi-coherent modules are associated sheaves of A-modules; sections commute with filtered colimits under this equivalence (Affine quasi-coherent sheaves are modules, Quasi-coherent module on a scheme).

[F3]

On a locally Noetherian scheme, a quasi-coherent module of finite type is coherent (Coherent sheaves on a locally Noetherian scheme, Coherent module sheaves, Locally Noetherian and Noetherian schemes).

[F4]

The finite affine cover in [F1] computes quasi-coherent cohomology by its ordered Cech complex (Cech cohomology computes quasi-coherent cohomology on a separated scheme).

[F5]

Filtered colimits of abelian groups are exact and commute with the cohomology of a cochain complex (Filtered colimits of abelian groups are exact).

Proof

1.1F1F2chooseconstruct

Choose a very ample embedding X↪PN and its standard affine cover Ui=X∩D+(xi). For a section s∈Γ(Ui,M), each overlap Ui∩Uj is the principal open D(xi/xj) in the affine Uj. By [F2] write s∣Ui∩Uj=mj/(xi/xj)rj for some mj∈Γ(Uj,M). There are finitely many j, so choose a common r≥rj and replace each numerator mj by (xi/xj)r−rjmj, so its denominator is now (xi/xj)r. With xj as the frame of L=OX(1) on Uj, the section mj⊗xjr of M⊗Lr extends s⊗xir from Ui∩Uj to Uj. On an overlap Uj∩Uk, the two extensions agree after inverting xi, because both restrict to s⊗xir there. Their difference is therefore killed by some power of xi in the quasi-coherent module of sections on that affine overlap. There are finitely many overlaps, so one further common power kills all differences; multiplying every local extension by that power of xi makes them agree and they glue to a global section of M⊗Ln whose restriction to Ui is s⊗xin. Thus each local section on a standard chart is locally in the image of a global map L−n→M.

2.1F1F3step 1.1construct

Take the direct sum of the maps L−n→M produced by [step 1.1] for all standard charts and all their local sections. At every stalk this map is surjective because the standard charts cover X and their sections generate the associated modules. Hence M is the union of the images of finite subsums: the indexing set of finite subsums is filtered, their transition maps are inclusions, and their colimit is the image of the surjection. Each finite subsum is a finite direct sum of invertible sheaves, so its image is a finite-type quasi-coherent submodule of M; it is coherent by [F3]. This proves the first assertion.

3.1F1F2F4F5∎

Fix the finite affine cover from [F1]. Every finite intersection is affine, and [F2] identifies sections on it with module sections; these sections commute with the filtered colimit. Therefore the ordered Cech complex of M is the degreewise filtered colimit of the ordered Cech complexes of Fj. The cover computes sheaf cohomology by [F4], and exactness of filtered colimits in [F5] gives Hq(X,M)=Hq(lim→⁡jC∙(U,Fj))≅lim→⁡jHq(C∙(U,Fj))≅lim→⁡jHq(X,Fj) for every q≥0. The finite cover and degreewise finite sums are essential; no interchange with an infinite product is used.

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