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Affine charts recover the algebraic module of differentials
Statement
Let be a homomorphism of commutative rings, let be the induced morphism of affine schemes, and let be the sheaf attached to the -module (The sheaf attached to a module on an affine scheme). Then there is a unique isomorphism of -modules and it is natural in the ring map , in particular compatible with restriction to a further affine open. Consequently, for every , compatibly with and with the localization maps ; for the two displays agree. No finiteness, flatness or separatedness hypothesis is imposed on .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A ring map , the induced morphism and an -module .
The sheaf attached to a module on an affine scheme: the sheaf attached to a -module satisfies naturally in and , the bijection being .
Universal property of relative differential sheaves: via , naturally in , for every -module .
Derivations are maps out of Ω: for a ring map and a -module , via precomposition with the universal derivation.
Kähler differentials commute with localization: for a multiplicative subset the canonical map is an isomorphism of -modules; for this reads , compatible with the universal derivations.
Global functions on Spec A recover A: the canonical map is an isomorphism, so and global sections of any -module are a -module.
Sections and restrictions on distinguished opens of an affine scheme: , and for the restriction is the canonical localization map .
Sheaf of relative Kähler differentials: an -derivation kills the image of ; in particular it kills the image of under the structure map.
Proof
Restriction of derivations. Let be an -derivation. Its global component is additive and satisfies Leibniz, and it kills the image of , because maps into through and kills that image by [F7]. So is a map .
Localizing a derivation of global sections. Conversely let be an -derivation. For every the composite is an -derivation, so by [F3] it corresponds to a -linear map , which by [F4] is the same as a -linear map ; put . These maps are compatible with restriction to a smaller basic open, since both restrictions are induced by the same -derivation composite and [F4] is compatible with the universal derivations.
Gluing. For an open and , the elements , indexed by basic opens , are compatible on intersections by step 1.2, so they glue to a unique element . The resulting are additive and satisfy Leibniz because this can be checked on a basic-open cover. They kill locally: a germ in the image of at comes from a section of on an open neighbourhood of ; after shrinking to an affine neighbourhood of and then to a basic open around , that section is a fraction of elements of . The derivation kills , and the Leibniz rule applied to an inverse shows it kills such fractions. Vanishing at every stalk implies the sheaf composite is zero.
The two constructions are inverse. If is an -derivation with global component , then for each the map of step 1.2 is the composite induced by and restriction, so agrees with on ; by the sheaf property, the derivation produced in step 2.1 equals . Conversely the derivation produced from has global component , since its component on restricts from . Hence restriction of global sections is a bijection natural in .
The comparison isomorphism. By [F1] with and [F3], , and by step 3.1 and [F2] the last group is . All identifications are natural in , so the Yoneda lemma produces a unique isomorphism ; tracking the universal elements (the identity of corresponds to the derivation and the identity of to ) shows that the isomorphism sends to . Naturality in the ring map follows from the functoriality of [F1] in and of [F3].
Sections over affine and basic opens. The sheaf attached to is computed from its values on the distinguished-open basis: the assignment with the localization maps as restrictions is a sheaf on the basis (the localization exactness makes fractions glue; see Localisation of a module at a multiplicative subset and [F4]) and extends to the sheaf with those values and restrictions, exactly as Sections and restrictions on distinguished opens of an affine scheme records for itself. Hence and under step 4.1, compatible with by the characterization of that isomorphism and with the localization maps because those are the restriction maps of .
Depends on
- The sheaf attached to a module on an affine scheme
- Universal property of relative differential sheaves
- Derivations are maps out of Ω
- Kähler differentials commute with localization
- Global functions on Spec A recover A
- Sections and restrictions on distinguished opens of an affine scheme
- Sheaf of relative Kähler differentials
- The underlying space of an affine spectrum
- Localisation of a module at a multiplicative subset
Used by
- Dual-number vectors in affine space Example
- Finite-type field extensions with zero Ω Lemma
- Relative differentials commute with scheme base change Lemma
- Unramified residue extensions are finite separable Lemma
- An unramified morphism has an open diagonal Theorem
- Conormal sequence for a closed immersion Theorem
- Cotangent space at a rational point Theorem
- Formal unramifiedness iff Omega vanishes Theorem
- Tangent vectors as dual-number points Theorem
- Transitivity sequence for schemes Theorem
Dependency tree · two levels
31 results within two dependency steps of this one, each drawn at its shortest distance from it. An arrow runs from a result to what uses it, so the chart reads left to right and ends at this result, which carries a heavier outline. Every node is a link to that result. Click elsewhere on the chart to enlarge it.
Sources
- Stacks Morphisms, Lemma 29.33.5, tag 01UT (standard reference, not scraped)
- Stacks Morphisms, Lemma 29.33.3, tag 01US (standard reference, not scraped)
- Vakil 22.2.20, pp.584–585 (standard reference, not scraped)