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A special case of Hill's equation is Mathieu's equation,\n\n\[ \n{y}^{\prime \prime } + \left( {\alpha + \beta \cos t}\right) y = 0,\n\]\n\nwhere \( \alpha \) and \( \beta \) are real parameters. We will assume that \( \beta \neq 0 \) . Note that the Floquet multipliers of Mathieu’s equation depend on \( \alpha \) and ...
Let\n\n\[ \n\gamma \left( {\alpha ,\beta }\right) \mathrel{\text{:=}} {\mu }_{1}\left( {\alpha ,\beta }\right) + {\mu }_{2}\left( {\alpha ,\beta }\right)\n\]\n\nThen the Floquet multipliers of Mathieu's equation satisfy the quadratic equation\n\n\[ \n{\mu }^{2} - \gamma \left( {\alpha ,\beta }\right) \mu + 1 = 0.\n\]\n...
Yes
We consider the ring \( \mathbb{Z}\left\lbrack i\right\rbrack \) with \( {i}^{2} = - 1 \), and try to imagine its prime spectrum \( \operatorname{Spec}\left( {\mathbb{Z}\left\lbrack i\right\rbrack }\right) \), using the inclusion map \( \varphi : \mathbb{Z} \rightarrow \mathbb{Z}\left\lbrack i\right\rbrack \) . This de...
We write \( \omega = \left( 0\right) \in \operatorname{Spec}\mathbb{Z} \) and \( {\omega }^{\prime } = \left( 0\right) \in \operatorname{Spec}\left( {\mathbb{Z}\left\lbrack i\right\rbrack }\right) \) for the points of \( \operatorname{Spec}\mathbb{Z} \) and \( \operatorname{Spec}\left( {\mathbb{Z}\left\lbrack i\right\r...
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Recall that a subset \( S \subset A \) is a multiplicative set if it contains 1 and is closed under multiplication. For every multiplicative set, we can construct a ring of fractions \( {A}_{S} \) consisting of pairs \( \left( {a, s}\right) \) with \( a \in A \) and \( s \in S \), identified according to the rule\n\n\[...
Algebraic operations are defined by the rules\n\n\[ \left( {a, s}\right) + \left( {{a}^{\prime },{s}^{\prime }}\right) = \left( {a{s}^{\prime } + {a}^{\prime }s, s{s}^{\prime }}\right) ,\]\n\n\[ \left( {a, s}\right) \left( {{a}^{\prime },{s}^{\prime }}\right) = \left( {a{a}^{\prime }, s{s}^{\prime }}\right) . \]
Yes
If \( A \) is the ring of integers of an algebraic number field \( K \), for example, \( A = \mathbb{Z}, K = \mathbb{Q} \), then \( \operatorname{Spec}A \) consists of maximal ideals together with (0).
For \( x = (0) \), we have \( {\mathcal{O}}_{x} = K \) and hence \( x \) is regular, with 0 -dimensional tangent space. If \( x = \mathfrak{p} \neq \left( 0\right) \) then it is known that \( {\mathcal{O}}_{x} \) is a principal ideal domain. Hence these points are also regular, with 1-dimensional tangent spaces.
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To find points that are not regular, consider the ring \( A = \mathbb{Z}\left\lbrack {mi}\right\rbrack = \) \( \mathbb{Z}\left\lbrack y\right\rbrack /\left( {{y}^{2} + {m}^{2}}\right) = \mathbb{Z} + \mathbb{Z}{mi} \), where \( m > 1 \) is an integer and \( {i}^{2} = - 1 \) . The inclusion \( \varphi : A \hookrightarrow...
If we restrict to prime ideals coprime to \( m \) then this is a one-to-one correspondence, and it is easy to check that the local rings of corresponding prime ideals are equal. Hence a point \( x \in \operatorname{Spec}{A}^{\prime } \) is not regular only if the prime ideal divides \( m \) . Prime ideals of \( {A}^{\p...
Yes
The simplest example of a decomposition of \( \operatorname{Spec}A \) into irreducible components is the case of a ring \( A \) that is a direct sum of a number of rings having no zerodivisors:\n\n\[ A = {A}_{1} \oplus \cdots \oplus {A}_{r} \]
In this case, one checks easily that \( \operatorname{Spec}A \) is a disjoint union of irreducible components \( \operatorname{Spec}\left( {A}_{i}\right) \) .
Yes
To consider a slightly less trivial example, take the group ring \( \mathbb{Z}\left\lbrack \sigma \right\rbrack \) of the cyclic group of order 2 :
\[ A = \mathbb{Z}\left\lbrack \sigma \right\rbrack = \mathbb{Z} + \mathbb{Z}\sigma ,\;\text{ with }{\sigma }^{2} = 1. \] The nilradical of \( A \) equals (0), but this is not a prime ideal, since \( A \) has zerodivisors: \( \left( {1 + \sigma }\right) \left( {1 - \sigma }\right) = 0 \) . Hence \[ \operatorname{Spec}A ...
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Example 5.10 To give an example of a ring of bigger dimension, consider the case \( A = \mathbb{Z}\left\lbrack T\right\rbrack \) . Since we expect that the reader has already worked out the structure of Spec \( \mathbb{Z}\left\lbrack T\right\rbrack \) as an exercise in Section 1.1, we assume it known. It is very simple...
\[ \left( {p, f\left( T\right) }\right) \supset \left( {g\left( t\right) }\right) \supset \left( 0\right) \text{ or }\left( {p, f\left( T\right) }\right) \supset \left( p\right) \supset \left( 0\right) . \] Thus \( \dim \mathbb{Z}\left\lbrack T\right\rbrack = 2 \), in agreement with Proposition C.
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We show that a homomorphism \( \lambda : A \rightarrow B \) defines a morphism \( \varphi : \operatorname{Spec}B \rightarrow \operatorname{Spec}A \) .
We first set \( \varphi = {}^{a}\lambda \) . For \( U = D\left( f\right) \subset \operatorname{Spec}A \) we have \( {\varphi }^{-1}\left( U\right) = D\left( {\lambda \left( f\right) }\right) \) . Sending \( a/{f}^{n} \mapsto \lambda \left( a\right) /\lambda {\left( f\right) }^{n} \) defines a homomorphism \( {\psi }_{U...
No
Theorem 5.2 Every local morphism \( \varphi : \operatorname{Spec}B \rightarrow \operatorname{Spec}A \) can be expressed uniquely in the form \( \varphi = {}^{a}\lambda \), where \( \lambda : A \rightarrow B \) is a homomorphism.
Proof There is, of course, only one candidate for \( \lambda \), namely \( {\psi }_{U} \), where \( U = \operatorname{Spec}A \) . We must prove that \( \varphi = {}^{a}\lambda \) . First we need to check this equality on the set Spec \( B \) . This follows at once from the fact that \( \varphi \) is local. Indeed, the ...
Yes
We explain how the notion of quasiprojective variety fits into the framework of schemes. We start from the case of an affine variety \( X \) over an algebraically closed field \( k \) . The scheme \( \operatorname{Spec}\left( {k\left\lbrack X\right\rbrack }\right) \) defined in Example 5.18 is not equal to \( X \) even...
We now consider an arbitrary quasiprojective variety \( X \) over \( k \), and associate with \( X \) in a similar way a \( k \) -scheme \( \widetilde{X} \) . As the set \( \widetilde{X} \) we take the set of irreducible subvarieties of \( X \) . Let \( U \subset X \) be an open subset and \( \widetilde{U} \) the set o...
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Can we recover \( X \) from an open cover \( X = \bigcup {X}_{\alpha } \) where each \( {X}_{\alpha } \) is an affine open set?
We consider this question in somewhat greater generality, without presupposing the open sets \( {U}_{\alpha } \) to be affine.\n\nWe note first that any open set \( U \subset X \) is a scheme. This follows from that fact that each point has an affine neighbourhood \( V \), and the open sets \( D\left( f\right) \subset ...
No
Let \( X \) be a scheme over an algebraically closed field \( k \) . Any morphism of \( k \) -schemes \( \varphi : \operatorname{Spec}k \rightarrow X \) takes the closed point \( o \in \operatorname{Spec}k \) to a closed point \( x = \varphi \left( o\right) \in X \), with \( k\left( x\right) = k \) . Conversely, any po...
\[ \text{\{morphisms}\operatorname{Spec}k \rightarrow X\} \overset{ \sim }{ \rightarrow }{X}_{\max }\text{,} \] where \( {X}_{\max } \) is the set of closed points of a scheme \( X \) of finite type over \( k \), obviously commutes with morphisms \( X \rightarrow {X}^{\prime } \), that it, is a functor.
Yes
Proposition If \( X \) is a \( k \) -scheme and \( x \in X \), the set \( {\mathcal{M}}_{x}\left( {\operatorname{Spec}D, X}\right) \) is in one-to-one correspondence with the tangent space \( {\Theta }_{X, x} \) to \( X \) at \( x \) .
It is easy to check that the correspondence \( {\mathcal{M}}_{x}\left( {\operatorname{Spec}D, X}\right) \overset{ \sim }{ \rightarrow }{\Theta }_{X, x} \) commutes with morphisms \( f : X \rightarrow {X}^{\prime } \) and their differentials \( {\mathrm{d}}_{x} : {\Theta }_{X, x} \rightarrow {\Theta }_{{X}^{\prime }, f\...
No
Proposition 5.1 If the affine scheme \( \operatorname{Spec}A \) is Noetherian then \( A \) is a Noetherian ring.
Proof By assumption there exists a cover (5.17) such that the \( {A}_{i} \) are Noetherian rings. Let \( {\mathfrak{a}}_{1} \subset {\mathfrak{a}}_{2} \subset \cdots \) be a chain of ideals of \( A \) . As we showed in Section 2.2, \( A = \) \( \mathcal{O}\left( X\right) \), where \( \mathcal{O} \) is the structure she...
Yes
Proposition 5.2 If an affine scheme \( \operatorname{Spec}A \) is of finite type over a ring \( B \) then \( A \) is an algebra of finite type over \( B \) .
Proof By assumption there exist a cover (5.17) such that the algebras \( {A}_{i} \) are of finite type over \( B \) . Since each \( \operatorname{Spec}{A}_{i} \) is compact, it has a finite cover by principal open sets \( D\left( f\right) \) with \( f \in A \) . The corresponding algebras \( {\left( {A}_{i}\right) }_{f...
Yes
Proposition 5.3 An affine scheme \( X \) over a ring \( B \) is separated, and \( \Delta : X \rightarrow X{ \times }_{B} \) \( X \) is a closed embedding.
Proof Let \( X = \operatorname{Spec}A \), where \( A \) is a \( B \) -algebra. Since by definition \( X{ \times }_{B}X = \) \( \operatorname{Spec}\left( {A{ \otimes }_{B}A}\right) \), the morphism \( \Delta : X \rightarrow X{ \times }_{B}X \) is associated with the homomorphism \( \lambda : A{ \otimes }_{B}A \rightarro...
Yes
Proposition 5.4 Let \( X = \bigcup {U}_{\alpha } \) be an affine cover that satisfies the conditions: (1) all the sets \( {U}_{\alpha } \cap {U}_{\beta } \) are affine, and (2) the ring \( {\mathcal{O}}_{X}\left( {{U}_{\alpha } \cap {U}_{\beta }}\right) \) is generated by its subrings \( {\rho }_{{U}_{\alpha } \cap {U}...
Proof Let \( u, v : X{ \times }_{B}X \rightarrow X \) be the standard maps of the product. Then\n\n\[{\Delta }^{-1}\left( {{u}^{-1}\left( {U}_{\alpha }\right) \cap {v}^{-1}\left( {U}_{\beta }\right) }\right) = {\Delta }^{-1}\left( {{u}^{-1}\left( {U}_{\alpha }\right) }\right) \cap {\Delta }^{-1}\left( {{v}^{-1}\left( {...
Yes
Proposition 5.5 In a separated scheme, the intersection of two affine open sets is affine.
Proof Indeed,\n\n\[ U \cap V = {\Delta }^{-1}\left( {U \times V}\right) \]\n\nIf \( U \) and \( V \) are affine then so is \( U \times V \), and if \( X \) is separated then \( \Delta \) is a closed embedding, and hence \( U \cap V \) is a closed subscheme of an affine scheme. This is affine by Proposition of Section 3...
Yes
Theorem 6.1 If \( X \) is a nonsingular irreducible variety and \( \varphi : X \rightarrow Y \) a rational map to a complete variety \( Y \), the locus of indeterminacy of \( \varphi \) has codimension \( \geq 2 \) .
Proof Let \( V \subset X \) be the set of points at which \( \varphi \) is defined, \( {\Gamma }_{\varphi } \subset V \times Y \) the graph of the morphism \( \varphi : V \rightarrow Y \) and \( Z \) its closure in \( X \times Y \) . The image of \( Z \) under the projection \( p : X \times Y \rightarrow X \) is closed...
Yes
Let \( V \) and \( W \) be two vector spaces of dimension \( m \) and \( n \). We determine the general form of a morphism \( f : X \times V \rightarrow X \times W \) between two trivial families.
The composite of the isomorphism \( X \rightarrow X \times {e}_{i} \) and the embedding \( X \times {e}_{i} \rightarrow X \times V \) defines a morphism \( {\varphi }_{i} : X \rightarrow X \times V \). Set \( {a}_{ij} = {\varphi }_{i}^{ * }\left( {{f}^{ * }\left( {y}_{j}\right) }\right) \in {\mathcal{O}}_{X}\left( X\ri...
Yes
Example 6.2 Let \( V \) be an \( \left( {n + 1}\right) \) -dimensional vector space and \( {\mathbb{P}}^{n} \) the vector space of lines \( l \subset V \) through 0 . Write \( {l}_{x} \) for the line corresponding to a point \( x \in {\mathbb{P}}^{n} \) . Consider the subset \( E \subset {\mathbb{P}}^{n} \times V \) of...
In \( V \), we introduce a coordinate system \( \left( {{x}_{0},\ldots ,{x}_{n}}\right) \) . The restriction of \( E \) to the open set \( {U}_{\alpha } \) given by \( {x}_{\alpha } \neq 0 \) consists of points\n\n\[ \xi = \left( {{t}_{1},\ldots ,{t}_{n};{y}_{0},\ldots ,{y}_{n}}\right) \;\text{ such that }\;{y}_{i} = {...
Yes
Example 6.4 Let \( X = \operatorname{Grass}\left( {r, n}\right) \) be the Grassmannian of \( r \) -dimensional vector subspaces of an \( n \) -dimensional vector space with basis \( {e}_{1},\ldots ,{e}_{n} \) (Example 1.24 of Section 4.1, Chapter 1). Consider in \( X \times V \) the subvariety \( E \) consisting of poi...
Consider the open subset \( {U}_{{k}_{1}\ldots {k}_{r}} \subset \operatorname{Grass}\left( {r, n}\right) \) defined by \( {p}_{{k}_{1}\ldots {k}_{r}} \neq 0 \) ; then for \( x \in {U}_{{k}_{1}\ldots {k}_{r}} \), the vector subspace \( {L}_{x} = {p}^{-1}\left( x\right) \) has a basis\n\n\[ \left\{ {{e}_{i} - \mathop{\su...
Yes
Consider the vector bundle \( E \) of Example 6.2. Every section \( s : {\mathbb{P}}^{n} \rightarrow E \) determines, in particular, a section \( s : {\mathbb{P}}^{n} \rightarrow {\mathbb{P}}^{n} \times V \), and hence by Corollary 1.2 of Section 5.2, Chapter 1 is of the form \( s\left( x\right) = \left( {x, v}\right) ...
This proves in particular that \( E \) is not a trivial bundle.
Yes
Theorem 6.2 The correspondence \( E \mapsto {\mathcal{L}}_{E} \) establishes a one-to-one correspondence between vector bundles and locally free sheaves of finite rank (here objects of either type are considered up to isomorphism).
Proof We show how to recover a vector bundle from a locally free sheaf \( \mathcal{F} \) . We can obviously assume that \( X \) is connected. Suppose that \( X = \bigcup {U}_{\alpha } \) is a cover such that \( {\mathcal{F}}_{\mid {U}_{\alpha }} \) is a free sheaf, and let \( {\varphi }_{\alpha } : {\mathcal{F}}_{\mid ...
"No"
Example 6.6 Let \( E \) and \( F \) be vector bundles, and \( {\mathcal{L}}_{E},{\mathcal{L}}_{F} \) the corresponding locally free sheaves. It is obvious that the sheaves \( {\mathcal{L}}_{E} \oplus {\mathcal{L}}_{F},{\mathcal{L}}_{E} \otimes {\mathcal{L}}_{F},{\mathcal{L}}_{E}^{ * },\mathop{\bigwedge }\limits_{\mathc...
If \( X = \bigcup {U}_{\alpha } \) is a cover in which \( E \) and \( F \) are defined by transition matrixes \( {C}_{\alpha \beta } \) and \( {D}_{\alpha \beta } \) then in the same cover, \( E \oplus F, E \otimes F,{E}^{ * },/{/}^{p}E \) are defined by the transition matrixes \[ \left( \begin{matrix} {C}_{\alpha \bet...
Yes
Example 6.7 Let \( X \) be a nonsingular variety. Taking an open set \( U \) to the group \( {\Omega }^{p}\left\lbrack U\right\rbrack \) of differential \( p \) -forms regular on \( U \) defines in an obvious way a sheaf of \( {\mathcal{O}}_{X} \) -modules. It is called the sheaf of differential p-forms.
Theorem 3.18 of Section 5.3, Chapter 3 asserts that this sheaf is locally free. Hence by Theorem 6.2 it defines a vector bundle, denoted by \( {\Omega }^{p} \) . In particular, \( {\Omega }^{1} \) is called the cotangent bundle.
Yes
Example 6.9 (The normal bundle \( {N}_{X/Y} \) ) Let \( X \) be a nonsingular variety and \( Y \subset X \) a nonsingular closed subvariety. We define the normal bundle \( {N}_{X/Y} \) to \( Y \) in \( X \) . The definition used in differential geometry is not applicable in the algebraic situation, since it is based on...
Write \( {\Theta }_{X}^{\prime } \) for the restriction to \( Y \) of the tangent bundle \( {\Theta }_{X} \) . It is defined as the pullback \( {j}^{ * }{\Theta }_{X} \), where \( j : Y \hookrightarrow X \) is the closed embedding. The vector bundle \( {\Theta }_{Y} \) is a subbundle of \( {\Theta }_{X}^{\prime } \) . ...
Yes
Let \( X = {\mathbb{P}}^{n} \) and let \( D \) be a hyperplane of \( {\mathbb{P}}^{n} \). The line bundle \( {E}_{D} \) corresponding to \( D \) under Theorem 6.3 is denoted by \( \mathcal{O}\left( 1\right) \). If \( D \) is given by \( {x}_{0} = 0 \) then in the open set \( {U}_{\alpha } \) where \( {x}_{\alpha } \neq...
Let us find the sections of \( \mathcal{O}\left( 1\right) \). In \( {U}_{\alpha } \) these are of the form \( {s}_{\alpha } = {P}_{\alpha }/{x}_{\alpha }^{k} \), where \( {P}_{\alpha } \) is a form of degree \( k \) ; and they are related by \( {s}_{\beta } = {c}_{\alpha \beta }{s}_{\alpha } \). It follows that \( k = ...
Yes
Let \( X \) be a nonsingular variety and \( Y \subset X \) a nonsingular hypersurface. In this case the normal bundle \( {N}_{X/Y} \) is a line bundle. We compute its characteristic class.
Suppose that \( Y \) is given in an affine cover \( X = \bigcup {U}_{\alpha } \) by local equations \( {f}_{\alpha } \) . Then \( {f}_{\beta }/{f}_{\alpha } = {f}_{\alpha \beta } \), where \( {f}_{\alpha \beta } \) and \( {f}_{\alpha \beta }^{-1} \in {\mathcal{O}}_{X}\left( {{U}_{\alpha } \cap {\mathcal{O}}_{\beta }}\r...
Yes
Theorem 6.4 (Adjunction formula) The genus \( {g}_{Y} \) of a nonsingular curve \( Y \) on a complete nonsingular surface \( X \) is given by the formula\n\n\[ \n{g}_{Y} = \frac{1}{2}Y\left( {Y + K}\right) + 1 \n\]\n\nwhere \( K \) is the canonical class of \( X \) .
Proof Let \( X \) be a nonsingular variety and \( Y \subset X \) an arbitrary nonsingular closed subvariety. By the definition of the normal bundle \( {N}_{X/Y} \) and (6.8), we obtain\n\n\[ \n{\rho }_{Y}\left( {\det {\Theta }_{X}}\right) = \det {\Theta }_{X}^{\prime } = \det {\Theta }_{Y} \otimes \det {N}_{X/Y} \n\]\n...
Yes
Example 6.13 Let \( X \) be a nonsingular algebraic variety over \( k,{\mathcal{O}}_{X} \) the sheaf of regular functions, and \( {\Omega }^{1} \) the sheaf of regular differential 1-forms. Sending \( f \in \) \( {\mathcal{O}}_{X}\left( U\right) \) to the differential \( \mathrm{d}f \in {\Omega }^{1}\left( U\right) \) ...
\[ \mathrm{d} : {\mathcal{O}}_{X} \rightarrow {\Omega }^{1} \] This is a homomorphism of sheaves of modules over the sheaf of locally constant \( k \) -valued functions, but not over \( {\mathcal{O}}_{X} \) (because, by Leibnitz’ rule, \( \mathrm{d} \) is not \( {\mathcal{O}}_{X} \) -linear).
Yes
Example 6.14 Let \( X \) be a nonsingular irreducible curve, and \( {\mathcal{K}}^{ * } \) the constant sheaf with \( {\mathcal{K}}^{ * }\left( U\right) = k{\left( X\right) }^{ * } \) the group of nonzero elements of \( k\left( X\right) \) under multiplication; let \( \mathcal{D} \) be the sheaf of local divisors, defi...
Thus it seems natural to define the image of a homomorphism \( f : \mathcal{F} \rightarrow \mathcal{G} \) of sheaves of modules as follows. First define the presheaf \( {\mathcal{I}}^{\prime } \) by setting\n\n\[ \n{\mathcal{I}}^{\prime }\left( U\right) = {f}_{U}\left( {\mathcal{F}\left( U\right) }\right) \;\text{ for ...
Yes
Proposition If \( S \) is the support of a sheaf \( \mathcal{F} \) and \( U \subset V \) are two open sets such that \( U \cap S = V \cap S \) then the restriction \( {\rho }_{U}^{V} : \mathcal{F}\left( V\right) \rightarrow \mathcal{F}\left( U\right) \) is an isomorphism.
Proof Let \( a \in \mathcal{F}\left( V\right) \) be such that \( {\rho }_{U}^{V}\left( a\right) = 0 \) . By definition of \( S \) every point \( x \in V \) with \( x \notin S \) has a neighbourhood \( {V}_{x} \), which we can assume to be contained in \( V \), for which\n\n\[{\rho }_{{V}_{x}}^{V}\left( a\right) = 0.\]\...
Yes
For any sheaf \( \mathcal{F} \) on a scheme \( X \), the dual sheaf \( \mathcal{G} = \mathcal{H}{om}\left( {\mathcal{F},{\mathcal{O}}_{X}}\right) \) is the sheafication of the presheaf \( \mathcal{G}\left( U\right) = \operatorname{Hom}\left( {\mathcal{F}\left( U\right) ,{\mathcal{O}}_{X}\left( U\right) }\right) \) . If...
If \( A \) is Noetherian and \( M = A{m}_{1} + \cdots + A{m}_{r} \) is finite then a homomorphism \( M \rightarrow A \) is determined by its values on the generators \( {m}_{i} \), so that \( {\operatorname{Hom}}_{A}\left( {M, A}\right) \subset {A}^{r} \), and is therefore again finite. It follows from this that if \( ...
No
Under the assumptions of Example 6.20, the sheaf of modules \( {\mathcal{I}}_{Y}/{\mathcal{I}}_{Y}^{2} \) is coherent. We prove that if \( X \) and \( Y \) are nonsingular then it is locally free.
This is a local assertion, and it is enough to check it in the case \( X = \operatorname{Spec}A, Y = \operatorname{Spec}B \) and \( B = A/I \), and we can even assume that \( A \) is the local ring of a point \( x \in \) \( X \) . Since \( X \) and \( Y \) are nonsingular we can assume that \( I = \left( {{u}_{1},\ldot...
Yes
Proposition 6.1 For any coherent sheaf \( \mathcal{F} \) over a Noetherian reduced irreducible scheme \( X \), there exists a dense open set \( W \) such that \( {\mathcal{F}}_{\mid W} \) is free.
Proof The assertion is local in nature, so that we can restrict to the case \( X = \operatorname{Spec}A \) , where \( A \) is a Noetherian ring without nilpotents and \( \mathcal{F} = \widetilde{M} \) for a finite \( A \) -module \( M \) . In addition, we can obviously assume that \( X \) is irreducible. Then \( X \) r...
Yes
Proposition 6.3 A coherent sheaf \( \mathcal{F} \) on a Noetherian scheme \( X \) with support \( Y \neq X \) has a chain of subsheaves\n\n\[ \mathcal{F} = {\mathcal{F}}_{0} \supset {\mathcal{F}}_{1} \supset \cdots \supset {\mathcal{F}}_{m} = 0 \]\n\nsuch that each quotient sheaf \( {\overline{\mathcal{F}}}_{i}/{\overl...
Proof In Example 6.16, we gave the example of the sheaf \( {\mathcal{I}}_{Y} \) of ideals of the reduced subscheme \( Y \) . Obviously \( \overline{\mathcal{F}} \) is a coherent sheaf of \( {\mathcal{O}}_{Y} \) -modules if\n\n\[ {\mathcal{I}}_{Y} \cdot \mathcal{F} = 0 \]\n\n(6.42)\n\nIndeed, under this assumption, all ...
Yes
Proposition 6.4 Let \( X \) be a Noetherian reduced scheme with \( X = \bigcup {X}_{i} \) its decomposition as a union of irreducible components, and suppose that \( \mathcal{F} \) is a coherent sheaf on \( X \) . There exist coherent sheaves \( {\mathcal{F}}_{i} \) on \( X \) and a homomorphism \( \varphi : \mathcal{F...
Proof Set \( {\mathcal{F}}_{i} = \mathcal{F}/\left( {{\mathcal{I}}_{{X}_{i}} \cdot \mathcal{F}}\right) \), and let \( {\varphi }_{i} : \mathcal{F} \rightarrow {\mathcal{F}}_{i} \) be the natural projection and \( \varphi = \bigoplus {\varphi }_{i} \) . We saw in Section 3.2 that the support of \( {\mathcal{F}}_{i} \) i...
Yes
Let us see that the Grassmannian \( \operatorname{Grass}\left( {r, V}\right) \) really is a universal scheme for \( r \) -dimensional subspaces of a vector space \( V \) . We consider schemes over an algebraically closed field \( k \) . For a \( k \) -scheme \( S \), we define \( \Phi \left( S\right) \) as the set of v...
These maps \( {f}_{S} \) are an exact analogue of writing down the Plücker coordinates (see Example 1.24 of Section 4.1, Chapter 1). Let \( E \rightarrow S \) be a vector bundle of rank \( r \), and \( S = \bigcup {U}_{\alpha } \) a cover such that \( {E}_{\mid {U}_{\alpha }} \cong {U}_{\alpha } \times {\mathbb{A}}^{r}...
Yes
We now give an example of a situation where the universal scheme does not exist. This is an extremely important case, nonsingular curves of given genus \( g \) . The reason for nonexistence is already present most vividly in the most trivial case, curves of genus 0 . We know that all such curves are isomorphic to \( {\...
However, \( f \) then corresponds to another element of \( \Phi \left( {\mathbb{P}}^{1}\right) \), the direct product \( {\mathbb{P}}^{1} \times {\mathbb{P}}^{1} \) . To nail down the contradiction, it remains to see that the family \( V \rightarrow {\mathbb{P}}^{1} \) is not isomorphic to \( {\mathbb{P}}^{1} \times {\...
Yes
Example 6.24 (The tangent space to the Grassmannian \( \operatorname{Grass}\left( {r, V}\right) \) ) Suppose that a point \( x \in \operatorname{Grass}\left( {r, V}\right) \) corresponds to a vector subspace \( E \) with basis \( {e}_{1},\ldots ,{e}_{r} \) . By what we said above, \( {\Theta }_{x} \) is isomorphic to t...
If the second basis is \( {e}_{1} + \varepsilon {v}_{1},\ldots ,{e}_{r} + \varepsilon {v}_{r} \) then this will happen if and only if\n\n\[ \n{e}_{i} + \varepsilon {v}_{i} = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{j}\left( {{c}_{ij} + \varepsilon {d}_{ij}}\right) \left( {{e}_{j} + \varepsilon {u}_{j}}\right) \n\]\n\nfor \( i = 1,\ldots...
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A closed point of this scheme is a multiplication \( E \times E \rightarrow E \) ; if \( E \) has basis \( {e}_{1},\ldots ,{e}_{n} \), the multiplication is given by \( {e}_{i}{e}_{j} = \sum {c}_{ij}^{m}{e}_{m} \) . Tautologically, the scheme is universal for multiplication laws in \( S{ \times }_{k}E \), where now \( ...
The associativity condition can be written out at once by comparing the coefficient of \( \varepsilon \) in \( \left( {{e}_{i}{e}_{j}}\right) {e}_{k} \) and \( {e}_{i}\left( {{e}_{j}{e}_{k}}\right) \) :\n\n\[ \mathop{\sum }\limits_{m}{c}_{ij}^{m}{d}_{mk}^{l} + \mathop{\sum }\limits_{m}{d}_{ij}^{m}{c}_{mk}^{l} = \mathop...
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Example 6.26 Let \( X \subset {\mathbb{P}}^{N} \) be a 0-dimensional subscheme. Suppose that the underlying set \( {X}_{\text{red }} \) does not intersect the hyperplane \( {\xi }_{0} = 0 \) . Taking a homogeneous polynomial \( F \in {S}^{\left( r\right) } \) to the polynomial \( f = F/{\xi }_{0}^{r} \in k\left\lbrack ...
\[ X = \operatorname{Spec}A,\;A = k\left\lbrack {\mathbb{A}}^{N}\right\rbrack /I\;\text{ and }\;{P}_{X}\left( T\right) = \text{ const. } = {\dim }_{k}A. \]
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Example 6.28 Let \( X \) be a curve with an ordinary double point \( {x}_{0} \) and let \( {X}^{v} \) be the normalisation of \( X \) . We consider the family \( v : {X}^{v} \rightarrow X \) as a family of 0 - dimensional schemes over the base \( X \) . Then for \( x \neq {x}_{0} \) the fibre \( {v}^{-1}\left( x\right)...
By Example 6.26, we have \( {P}_{{v}^{-1}\left( x\right) }\left( r\right) = \) const. \( = 1 \) for \( x \neq {x}_{0} \) but \( {P}_{{v}^{-1}\left( {x}_{0}\right) }\left( r\right) = \) const. \( = 2. \)
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Example 6.29 Suppose that \( \operatorname{char}k \neq 2 \) ; let \( g \) be the automorphism of \( X = {\mathbb{A}}^{2} \) of order 2 given by \( g\left( {x, y}\right) = \left( {-x, - y}\right) \) and \( S = X/G \) the quotient of \( X \) by the group \( G = \{ 1, g\} \) (see Example 1.21 of Section 2.3, Chapter 1 and...
Then \( S \subset {\mathbb{A}}^{3} \) is given by \( {uv} = {w}^{2} \), and the morphism \( X \rightarrow S \) by \( u = {x}^{2}, v = {y}^{2} \) and \( w = {xy} \) . We view \( X \rightarrow S \) as a family of 0 -dimensional subschemes of \( {\mathbb{A}}^{2} \) with base \( S \) . For \( s = \left( {a, b, c}\right) \i...
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Theorem 6.7 Let \( A \) be the local ring of a nonsingular point of a curve over an algebraically closed field, and \( X \subset {\mathbb{P}}_{A}^{N} \) a closed subscheme such that the morphism \( X \rightarrow \operatorname{Spec}A \) is flat. Then the fibres of \( X \) over the closed and generic points of \( \operat...
Proof Let\n\n\[ \n{\mathfrak{a}}_{X} = {\bigoplus }_{r \geq 0}{\mathfrak{a}}_{X}^{\left( r\right) } \subset \Gamma = A\left\lbrack {{T}_{0},\ldots ,{T}_{N}}\right\rbrack \n\] \n\nbe the homogeneous ideal corresponding to the closed subscheme \( X \) . Set \( B = \) \( \Gamma /{\mathfrak{a}}_{X} = {\bigoplus }_{r > 0}{B...
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Lemma 7.1 If \( X \) is an irreducible algebraic variety and \( Y \subsetneqq X \) a proper subvariety then the set \( X\left( \mathbb{C}\right) \smallsetminus Y\left( \mathbb{C}\right) \) is everywhere dense in \( X\left( \mathbb{C}\right) \) .
Proof Consider first the case that \( X \) is an algebraic curve. Then \( Y \) consists of a finite set of closed points. Let \( v : {X}^{v} \rightarrow X \) be the normalisation morphism, and \( {Y}^{\prime } = {v}^{-1}\left( Y\right) \) . Since \( {X}^{v} \) is nonsingular, every point \( {y}^{\prime } \in {Y}^{\prim...
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Lemma 7.2 If \( V \subset {\mathbb{A}}^{n} \) is an open subset in the Zariski topology then \( V\left( \mathbb{C}\right) \) is connected.
Proof Write \( {\mathbb{A}}^{n} \smallsetminus V = Y \), and let \( {x}_{1},{x}_{2} \in V\left( \mathbb{C}\right) \) . Pass a line \( L \) through \( {x}_{1} \) and \( {x}_{2} \) . Then \( L \) is not contained in any irreducible component of \( Y \), so that \( L \cap Y \) is a finite set \( \left\{ {{y}_{1},\ldots ,{...
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Lemma 7.3 \( X\left( \mathbb{C}\right) \) is connected if \( X \) is an irreducible curve.
Proof Because the connectedness of \( X\left( \mathbb{C}\right) \) is not affected by adding or deleting a finite number of points, we can restrict ourselves at once to the case that \( X \) is a nonsingular projective curve.\n\nSuppose that \( X\left( \mathbb{C}\right) = {M}_{1} \sqcup {M}_{2} \) is a decomposition of...
Yes
Lemma 7.4 For an irreducible nonsingular n-dimensional variety \( X \), there exists an open set \( U \), an irreducible \( \left( {n - 1}\right) \)-dimensional variety \( V \), and a surjective morphism \( f : U \rightarrow V \) with the following properties:\n\n(1) Every fibre of \( f \) is 1-dimensional.\n\n(2) Ever...
Proof We will choose \( V \) as a model of a subfield \( K \subset \mathbb{C}\left( X\right) \) of transcendence degree \( n - 1 \) to which we can apply the Bertini theorems, Theorem 2.26 of Section 6.1, Chapter 2 and Theorem 2.27 of Section 6.2, Chapter 2. The only difficulty arises in connection with the first of th...
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Theorem 7.1 If \( X \) is an irreducible algebraic variety over \( \mathbb{C} \), then \( X\left( \mathbb{C}\right) \) is connected.
Proof By induction on \( n = \dim X \) . Consider the map \( f : U \rightarrow V \) whose existence was proved in Lemma 7.4. Suppose that \( X\left( \mathbb{C}\right) = {M}_{1} \sqcup {M}_{2} \) is a decomposition into disjoint closed sets. Because \( f \) has connected fibres, every fibre is contained entirely in \( {...
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Lemma 7.6 Suppose that \( f\left( {{z}_{1},\ldots ,{z}_{n}}\right) \) is an analytic function on the whole of \( {\mathbb{C}}^{n} \) , and that there exists a constant \( C \) such that\n\n\[ \left| {f\left( z\right) }\right| < C{\left| z\right| }^{k}\;\text{ for }z = \left( {{z}_{1},\ldots ,{z}_{n}}\right) ,\text{ whe...
Proof Suppose that the homogeneous component \( {F}_{l} \) of the Taylor series expansion\n\n\[ f = {F}_{0} + {F}_{1} + \cdots \]\n\nof \( f \) about 0 is not identically 0 for some \( l > k \) . There exist \( {\alpha }_{1},\ldots ,{\alpha }_{n} \) with \( {F}_{l}\left( {{\alpha }_{1},\ldots ,{\alpha }_{n}}\right) \ne...
Yes
Theorem 7.2 Let \( X \) and \( Y \) be nonsingular irreducible varieties and \( f : X \rightarrow Y \) a proper morphism such that \( f\left( X\right) \subset Y \) is dense and \( X \) remains irreducible in the algebraic closure of \( \mathbb{C}\left( Y\right) \) (compare Section 6.1, Chapter 2). Then every fibre of \...
Proof By the Bertini theorems, Theorem 2.26 of Section 6.1, Chapter 2 and Theorem 2.27 of Section 6.2, Chapter 2, there exists a subvariety \( S \subsetneqq Y \) such that for every point \( y \notin S \) the fibre \( {f}^{-1}\left( y\right) \) is nonsingular and irreducible. We need to consider the fibres \( {f}^{-1}\...
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Theorem 7.3 For every morphism \( f : X \rightarrow Y \) of nonsingular curves with \( f\left( X\right) \) dense in \( Y \), and every \( x \in X \), there exist neighbourhoods \( U \ni x \) and \( V \ni f\left( x\right) \), and homeomorphisms \( u : U \rightarrow \mathbb{C} \) and \( v : V \rightarrow \mathbb{C} \) on...
If we interpret \( u \) and \( v \) as coordinates in open sets \( U \) and \( V \), then Theorem 1 asserts that \( f \), restricted to these neighbourhoods and expressed in terms of these coordinates has the very simple form\n\n\[ v = {u}^{k} \]\n\n(7.12)\n\n(see Figure 29). The open sets \( U \) and \( V \) can obvio...
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Theorem 7.5 If \( X \) is a nonsingular projective curve then the space \( X\left( \mathbb{C}\right) \) can be triangulated, and is a combinatorial surface.
Proof We prove first that \( {\mathbb{P}}_{\mathbb{C}}^{1} \) has a triangulation. We indicate a triangulation which, although not the most economic, is useful for subsequent applications.\n\nThe decomposition of the surface of an octahedron into its faces, edges and vertexes gives a triangulation. Suppose that the oct...
Yes
Theorem 7.6 If \( X \) is a nonsingular projective curve then \( X\left( \mathbb{C}\right) \) is an orientable surface.
Proof This is of course a particular case of Proposition of Section 1.2, but we give another, much more elementary, proof. We use an arbitrary morphism \( f : X \rightarrow {\mathbb{P}}^{1} \) , and consider compatible triangulations \( \Phi \) and \( \Psi \) of \( X\left( \mathbb{C}\right) \) and \( {\mathbb{P}}_{\mat...
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Theorem 7.7 The Euler characteristic of \( X\left( \mathbb{C}\right) \) is \( 2 - {2g} \), where \( g \) is the genus of \( X \) .
Proof We again use a regular map \( f : X \rightarrow {\mathbb{P}}^{1} \) and compatible triangulations \( \Phi \) and \( \Psi \) of \( X\left( \mathbb{C}\right) \) and \( {\mathbb{P}}^{1}\left( \mathbb{C}\right) \) . We write \( {c}_{0},{c}_{1},{c}_{2} \) for the numbers appearing in the definition of the Euler charac...
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Proposition 7.2 Let \( E \) be a 1-simplex of the triangulation \( \Phi \) of \( X\left( \mathbb{C}\right) \) contained in \( X\left( \mathbb{R}\right) \), and \( {E}^{\prime } \) and \( {E}^{\prime \prime } \) the two 2-simplexes meeting along \( E \) . Then \( \tau \left( {E}^{\prime }\right) = {E}^{\prime \prime } \...
Proof Since \( {E}^{\prime } \) and \( {E}^{\prime \prime } \) are the only two simplexes of the triangulation \( \Phi \) with \( E \) as boundary, \( \Phi \) is \( \tau \) -invariant and \( \tau \left( E\right) = E \), it follows that either \( \tau \left( {E}^{\prime }\right) = {E}^{\prime } \) and \( \tau \left( {E}...
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Example 8.1 (Quotients of \( {\mathbb{C}}^{n} \) by a lattice) We view the \( n \) -dimensional complex vector space \( {\mathbb{C}}^{n} \) as a \( {2n} \) -dimensional real vector space, and choose \( m \) linearly independent vectors \( {a}_{1},\ldots ,{a}_{m} \) . Write \( \Omega \) for the set of vectors of the for...
Suppose that \( m = {2n} \) . In this case the manifold \( {\mathbb{C}}^{n}/G \) has a very simple topological structure. Since\n\n\[ {\mathbb{C}}^{n} = \mathbb{R}{a}_{1} + \cdots + \mathbb{R}{a}_{2n}\;\text{ and }\;\Omega = \mathbb{Z}{a}_{1} + \cdots + \mathbb{Z}{a}_{2n}, \]\n\n\( {\mathbb{C}}^{n}/G \) is homeomorphic...
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Example 8.2 (Hopf manifolds) Write \( X = {\mathbb{C}}^{n} \smallsetminus 0 \) and let \( c \) be a real number with \( c > 1 \) . Let \( G \) be the group of transformations\n\n\[ \n\left( {{z}_{1},\ldots ,{z}_{n}}\right) \mapsto \left( {{c}^{k}{z}_{1},\ldots ,{c}^{k}{z}_{n}}\right) \;\text{ with }k \in \mathbb{Z}.\n\...
Write any point \( z \in X \) in the form\n\n\[ \nz = {ru}\n\]\n\nwhere \( r \) is a positive number and \( u = \left( {{u}_{1},\ldots ,{u}_{n}}\right) \) a vector such that \( {\left| {u}_{1}\right| }^{2} + \cdots + \) \( {\left| {u}_{n}\right| }^{2} = 1 \) . This representation is obviously unique and defines a homeo...
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In this example we start with the argument where we left off in Example 8.3. If \( A \) were algebraic, we would be able to find an algebraic curve \( C \subset A \) . If \( v : {C}^{v} \rightarrow C \) is the normalisation map, then triangulating \( {C}^{v} \) using Theorem 7.5 makes \( {C}^{v} \) into a singular cycl...
We now prove that \( C \) is not homologous to 0, so that not all the \( {a}_{i, j} \) are equal to 0 . For this note that the differential form\n\n\[ \frac{1}{2i}\left( {\mathrm{\;d}{z}_{1} \land \mathrm{d}{\bar{z}}_{1} + \mathrm{d}{z}_{2} \land \mathrm{d}{\bar{z}}_{2}}\right) \]\n\non \( {\mathbb{C}}^{2} \) is invari...
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Theorem 8.1 Every divisor is a difference of two effective divisors with no common components.
Proof of Theorem 8.1 We can assume that \( D \) is given by a cover \( \bigcup {U}_{\alpha } \) and a collection of meromorphic fractions \( {\varphi }_{\alpha } \) with\n\n\[{\varphi }_{\alpha } = {f}_{\alpha }/{g}_{\alpha }\;\text{ in }{U}_{\alpha }\n\]\n\nwhere \( {f}_{\alpha } \) and \( {g}_{\alpha } \) are holomor...
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Theorem 8.2 A function \( \varphi \) that is holomorphic at every point of a compact connected manifold \( X \) is constant.
Proof The modulus \( \left| \varphi \right| \) is obviously a continuous function on \( X \), and it therefore takes its maximum at some point \( {x}_{0} \) . Consider a neighbourhood \( U \) of \( {x}_{0} \) isomorphic to an open set \( V \subset {\mathbb{C}}^{n} \) ; we can assume that \( V \) consists of points \( \...
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Theorem 8.5 If \( X \) and \( Y \) are complete algebraic varieties then any holomorphic map \( f : {X}_{\mathrm{{an}}} \rightarrow {Y}_{\mathrm{{an}}} \) is of the form \( f = {g}_{\mathrm{{an}}} \) where \( g : X \rightarrow Y \) is a morphism.
Proof Choose a point \( x \in X \) and set \( y = f\left( x\right) \) ; let \( U \) be an affine neighbourhood of \( y \) . Suppose that \( U \subset {\mathbb{A}}^{N} \), and write \( {t}_{1},\ldots ,{t}_{N} \) for the coordinates in \( {\mathbb{A}}^{N} \) . By Theorem 8.4, the holomorphic functions \( {f}^{ * }\left( ...
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Let \( X \) be a complex Kähler manifold with Kähler metric \( \varphi \) and \( G \) a group of analytic automorphisms of \( X \) acting freely and discretely (see Section 1.2). If each automorphism \( g \in G \) preserves the Kähler metric \( \varphi \) then it induces a metric \( {\varphi }^{ * } \) on the quotient ...
To define \( {\varphi }^{ * } \), we must take an open set \( U \subset X/G \) whose inverse image \( {\pi }^{-1}\left( U\right) \) under the natural projection \( \pi : X \rightarrow X/G \) breaks up as a disjoint union of open sets \( {U}_{\alpha } \), each of which maps isomorphically to \( U \) under \( \pi \) . We...
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Let \( {\zeta }_{0},\ldots ,{\zeta }_{n} \) be homogeneous coordinates on \( {\mathbb{P}}^{n} \) and \( \zeta \) an arbitrary linear form. Then \( {\zeta }_{\alpha }/\zeta = {z}_{\alpha } \) are rational functions on \( {\mathbb{P}}^{n} \) . Set\n\n\[ H = \log \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{\alpha = 0}}^{n}{\left| {z}_{\alpha...
Note first that the 2 -form \( \omega \) is independent of the choice of the linear form \( \zeta \) . For this it is enough to check that if \( \eta \) is another linear form then \( {\mathrm{d}}^{\prime }{\mathrm{d}}^{\prime \prime }\log {\left| \zeta /\eta \right| }^{2} = 0 \) .\n\nIndeed, wherever \( \eta \neq 0 \)...
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Example 8.8 (The induced Kähler metric on a projective manifold \( X \subset {\mathbb{P}}^{n} \) ) Let \( X \) be a Kähler manifold and \( Y \subset X \) a complex submanifold. The restriction of differential forms from \( X \) to \( Y \) takes a closed form to a closed form. The restriction of Hermitian forms takes a ...
In particular we see that any projective variety \( X \) has a Kähler metric. This metric is defined not by intrinsic properties of \( X \) but by its embedding into \( {\mathbb{P}}^{n} \) .
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Proposition 8.1 The 2-form \( \omega \) associated with a Kähler form can be written in the form\n\n\[ \omega = {\mathrm{d}}^{\prime }{\mathrm{d}}^{\prime \prime }H \]\n\nin a neighbourhood of any point, where \( H \) is a \( {C}^{\infty } \) function of the real coordinates. A form of type \( {\mathrm{d}}^{\prime }{\m...
We observe first that the condition for a 2 -form \( \omega \) to be closed is \( \mathrm{d}\omega = {\mathrm{d}}^{\prime }\omega + {\mathrm{d}}^{\prime \prime }\omega = 0 \) . But \( \omega \) is of type \( \left( {1,1}\right) \) (that it, is of degree 1 in both the \( \mathrm{d}{z}_{\alpha } \) and the \( \mathrm{d}{...
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Proposition 8.2 For a Kähler metric, there exists a complex analytic coordinate system at each point \( P \) such that the matrix entries \( {c}_{\alpha \beta } \) of the metric satisfy the conditions\n\n\[ \n{c}_{\alpha \beta }\left( P\right) = {\delta }_{\alpha \beta },\;\text{ and }\;\frac{\partial {c}_{\alpha \beta...
Proof We start from the associated form \( \omega \) of the Kähler metric, and its representation \( \omega = {\mathrm{d}}^{\prime }{\mathrm{d}}^{\prime \prime }H \) established in Proposition 8.1, where \( H \) is an analytic function in the coordinates \( {z}_{\alpha } \) and \( {\bar{z}}_{\alpha } \) . In the Taylor...
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Theorem 9.2 \( \dim {\mathcal{L}}_{k} = k \) .
Proof Let \( f\left( z\right) \) be any of the functions \( {f}_{i} \) . The first of the conditions (9.9) shows that \( f\left( z\right) = \varphi \left( t\right) \), where \( \varphi \) is a holomorphic function on \( {\mathbb{C}}^{1} \smallsetminus 0 \), and \( t = {e}^{2\pi iz} \) . Indeed, \( \varphi \left( t\righ...
Yes
Theorem 1.3. If \( g \in {L}_{loc}^{1}\left( \Omega \right) \) and \( {\int }_{\Omega }{g\varphi }\mathrm{d}x = 0 \) for each \( \varphi \in {C}_{0}^{\infty }\left( \Omega \right) \) then \( g = 0 \) almost everywhere on \( \Omega \) .
Proof. Consider a function \( \phi \) satisfying (see (14.3.3) for a concrete example)\n\n\[ \phi \in {C}_{0}^{\infty }\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{n}\right) ,\;\phi \geq 0,\;\operatorname{supp}\phi \subseteq \overline{B\left( {0,1}\right) }, \]\n\n\[ \text{and}{\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^{n}}\phi \left( x\right) \mathrm{d}x = 1\tex...
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Consider the function\n\n\[ f : \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R},\;f\left( x\right) \mathrel{\text{:=}} \left\{ {\begin{array}{ll} x, & x > 0, \\ 0, & x \leq 0, \end{array}\;\forall x \in \mathbb{R}.}\right. \]\n\nNote that \( f \) is continuous on \( \mathbb{R} \) but not differentiable at 0 . Nonetheless, \( f \) ha...
Indeed, if \( \varphi \in {C}_{0}^{\infty }\left( \mathbb{R}\right) \), then integration by parts yields\n\n\[ - {\int }_{-\infty }^{\infty }f\left( x\right) {\varphi }^{\prime }\left( x\right) \mathrm{d}x = - {\int }_{0}^{\infty }x{\varphi }^{\prime }\left( x\right) \mathrm{d}x = - {\left. x\varphi \left( x\right) \ri...
Yes
Does there exist a function \( g \in {L}_{loc}^{1}\left( \mathbb{R}\right) \) such that \( g \) is a weak derivative (of order one) of the Heaviside function?
To answer this question first observe that for each \( \varphi \in {C}_{0}^{\infty }\left( \mathbb{R}\right) \) we have\n\n\[ - {\int }_{-\infty }^{\infty }H\left( x\right) {\varphi }^{\prime }\left( x\right) \mathrm{d}x = - {\int }_{0}^{\infty }{\varphi }^{\prime }\left( x\right) \mathrm{d}x = \varphi \left( 0\right) ...
Yes
Example 1.11. Let \( f \in {C}^{\infty }\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{n}\right) \) be given. Then a sequence of functions from \( {C}^{\infty }\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{n}\right) \) that converges to \( f \) in \( \mathcal{E}\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{n}\right) \) may be constructed as follows. Recall \( \phi \) from (1.2.3) and define \[...
Clearly, for each \( j \in \mathbb{N} \) we have \[ {\phi }_{j} \in {C}_{0}^{\infty }\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{n}\right) ,\;\operatorname{supp}{\phi }_{j} \subseteq \overline{B\left( {0,1/j}\right) },\;\text{ and }{\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^{n}}{\phi }_{j}\mathrm{\;d}x = 1. \] Now if we further set for each \( j \in \mathbb{N} \...
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Consider the function\n\n\[ \varphi \left( x\right) \mathrel{\text{:=}} \left\{ \begin{array}{lll} \frac{1}{{\left| x - \frac{1}{2}\right| }^{2} - \frac{1}{4}} & \text{ if }0 < x < 1, & \text{ for each }x \in \mathbb{R}. \\ 0 & \text{ if }x \leq 0\text{ or }x > 1, & \end{array}\right. \]\n\nNote that \( \varphi \in {C}...
Clearly this limit function does not have compact support.
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Consider next the issue whether \( {\left\{ {\varphi }_{j}\right\} }_{j \in \mathbb{N}} \) converge in \( \mathcal{D}\left( \mathbb{R}\right) \) .
If this were to be the case, there would exist \( r \in \left( {0,\infty }\right) \) such that \( \operatorname{supp}{\varphi }_{j} \subseteq \left\lbrack {-r, r}\right\rbrack \) for every \( j \) . However, \( \mathop{\bigcup }\limits_{{j = 1}}^{\infty }\operatorname{supp}{\varphi }_{j} = \lbrack 1,\infty ) \) which l...
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Lemma 1.24. Suppose \( A \in {\mathcal{M}}_{n \times n}\left( \mathbb{R}\right) \) is such that \( \det A \neq 0 \) . Then the composition mapping\n\n\[ \mathcal{D}\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{n}\right) \ni \varphi \mapsto \varphi \circ A \in \mathcal{D}\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{n}\right) \]\n\n(1.3.18)\n\nis well defined, linear a...
Proof. Let \( \varphi \in {C}_{0}^{\infty }\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{n}\right) \) . By the Chain Rule we have \( \varphi \circ A \in {C}^{\infty }\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{n}\right) \) . We claim that\n\n\[ \operatorname{supp}\left( {\varphi \circ A}\right) = \left\{ {x \in {\mathbb{R}}^{n} : {Ax} \in \operatorname{supp}\varphi ...
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For each \( f \in {L}_{loc}^{1}\left( \Omega \right) \) define the functional \( {u}_{f} : \mathcal{D}\left( \Omega \right) \rightarrow \mathbb{C} \) by\n\n\[ \n{u}_{f}\left( \varphi \right) \mathrel{\text{:=}} {\int }_{\Omega }f\left( x\right) \varphi \left( x\right) \mathrm{d}x,\;\forall \varphi \in {C}_{0}^{\infty }...
Hence, by Proposition 2.4, \( {u}_{f} \) is a distribution in \( \Omega \) . Moreover,(2.1.7) also shows that \( {u}_{f} \) is a distribution of order 0 .
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We have that \( \ln \left| x\right| \in {L}_{loc}^{1}\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{n}\right) \), thus \( \ln \left| x\right| \) is a distribution in \( {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \) .
To see that indeed \( \ln \left| x\right| \) is locally integrable in \( {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \), observe first that\n\n\[ \left| {\ln t}\right| \leq \frac{1}{\varepsilon }\max \left\{ {{t}^{\varepsilon },{t}^{-\varepsilon }}\right\} \;\text{ for all }t > 0\text{ and }\varepsilon > 0. \]\n\n(2.1.9)\n\nThis is justified by ...
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For a given \( f \in {L}_{loc}^{1}\left( \Omega \right) \) and multi-index \( \alpha \in {\mathbb{N}}_{0}^{n} \), consider the functional \( {g}_{\alpha } : \mathcal{D}\left( \Omega \right) \rightarrow \mathbb{C} \) defined by\n\n\[ \n{g}_{\alpha }\left( \varphi \right) \mathrel{\text{:=}} {\left( -1\right) }^{\left| \...
Clearly this is a linear mapping. Moreover, if \( {\varphi }_{j}\xrightarrow[{j \rightarrow \infty }]{\mathcal{D}\left( \Omega \right) }0 \), then there exists \( K \) compact subset of \( \Omega \) such that supp \( {\varphi }_{j} \subseteq K \) for every \( j \in \mathbb{N} \), hence\n\n\[ \n\left| {{g}_{\alpha }\lef...
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A natural question to ask is whether \( \delta \) is a distribution of function type.
To answer this question, suppose there exists \( f \in {L}_{loc}^{1}\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{n}\right) \) such that\n\n\[ \varphi \left( 0\right) = \langle \delta ,\varphi \rangle = {\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^{n}}{f\varphi }\mathrm{d}x\text{ for all }\varphi \in {C}_{0}^{\infty }\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{n}\right) . \]\n\n(2.1.20)\n...
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Example 2.15. Let \( \mu \) be either a complex Borel measure on \( \Omega \), or a Borel positive measure on \( \Omega \) that is locally finite (i.e., satisfies \( \mu \left( K\right) < \infty \) for every compact \( K \subset \) \( \Omega ) \) . Consider\n\n\[ \mu : \mathcal{D}\left( \Omega \right) \rightarrow \math...
The mapping in (2.1.22) is well defined, linear, and if \( K \) is an arbitrary compact set in \( \Omega \), then\n\n\[ \left| {\mu \left( \varphi \right) }\right| \leq \left| \mu \right| \left( K\right) \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{x \in K}}\left| {\varphi \left( x\right) }\right| ,\;\forall \varphi \in {C}^{\infty }\left(...
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Proposition 2.16. Let \( u \) be a distribution in \( \Omega \) of order zero. Then the distribution \( u \) extends uniquely to a linear map \( {\Lambda }_{u} : {C}_{0}^{0}\left( \Omega \right) \rightarrow \mathbb{C} \) that is locally bounded, in the following sense: for each compact set \( K \subset \Omega \) there ...
\[ \left| {{\Lambda }_{u}\left( \varphi \right) }\right| \leq {C}_{K}\mathop{\sup }\limits_{{x \in K}}\left| {\varphi \left( x\right) }\right| ,\;\forall \varphi \in {C}_{0}^{0}\left( \Omega \right) \text{ with }\operatorname{supp}\varphi \subseteq K. \] (2.1.24) In addition, the functional \( {\Lambda }_{u} \) satisfi...
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Proposition 2.19. Let \( u \) be a distribution in \( \Omega \) of order \( k \in {\mathbb{N}}_{0} \). Then there exists a linear map \( {\Lambda }_{u} : {C}_{0}^{k}\left( \Omega \right) \rightarrow \mathbb{C} \) satisfying \( {\left. {\Lambda }_{u}\right| }_{{C}_{0}^{\infty }\left( \Omega \right) } = u \) and with the...
Proof. Let \( K \) be an arbitrary compact subset of \( \Omega \) and let \( \varphi \in {C}_{0}^{k}\left( \Omega \right) \) be such that \( \operatorname{supp}\varphi \subseteq K \). Apply Lemma 2.17 to obtain a sequence \( {\left\{ {\varphi }_{j}\right\} }_{j \in \mathbb{N}} \subset {C}_{0}^{\infty }\left( \Omega \ri...
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For each multi-index \( \alpha \in {\mathbb{N}}_{0}^{n} \) the distribution \( {\partial }^{\alpha }\delta \) is a distribution of order \( \left| \alpha \right| \) in \( {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \).
By Proposition 2.19 (and formula (2.1.36)) this distribution extends uniquely to the linear map\n\n\[ \n{\Lambda }_{{\partial }^{\alpha }\delta } : {C}_{0}^{\left| \alpha \right| }\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{n}\right) \rightarrow \mathbb{C}\;\text{defined by} \n\]\n\n(2.1.46)\n\n\[ \n{\Lambda }_{{\partial }^{\alpha }\delta }\...
Yes
Example 2.24. Let \( \phi \) be as in (1.2.3) and recall the sequence of functions \( {\left\{ {\phi }_{j}\right\} }_{j \in \mathbb{N}} \) from (1.3.7). Interpreting each \( {\phi }_{j} \in {L}_{loc}^{1}\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{n}\right) \) as distribution in \( {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \), for each function \( \varphi \in {C}_{0}...
\[ \n\left\langle {{\phi }_{j},\varphi }\right\rangle = {\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^{n}}\phi \left( y\right) \varphi \left( {y/j}\right) \mathrm{d}y\underset{j \rightarrow \infty }{ \rightarrow }\varphi \left( 0\right) {\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^{n}}\phi \left( y\right) \mathrm{d}y = \varphi \left( 0\right) = \langle \delta ,\var...
Yes
Proposition 2.27. Let \( A \in {\mathcal{M}}_{n \times n}\left( \mathbb{R}\right) \) be such that \( \det A \neq 0 \) . For each distribution \( u \in {\mathcal{D}}^{\prime }\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{n}\right) \), define the mapping \( u \circ A : \mathcal{D}\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{n}\right) \rightarrow \mathbb{C} \) by settin...
Proof. This is an immediate consequence of (1.3.18).
No
Proposition 2.29. Let \( u \in {\mathcal{D}}^{\prime }\left( \Omega \right) \) and \( a \in {C}^{\infty }\left( \Omega \right) \) . Then the mapping \[ \text{ au } : \mathcal{D}\left( \Omega \right) \rightarrow \mathbb{C}\text{ defined by }\;\left( {au}\right) \left( \varphi \right) \mathrel{\text{:=}} \langle u,{a\var...
Proof. The fact that \( {au} \) is linear is immediate. To show that \( {au} \) is also continuous we make use of Remark 2.3. To this end, consider a sequence \( {\varphi }_{j}\xrightarrow[{j \rightarrow \infty }]{\mathcal{D}\left( \Omega \right) }0 \) . By (2) in Exercise 1.20 we have \( a{\varphi }_{j}\xrightarrow[{j...
Yes
Recall the Dirac distribution defined in (2.1.19) and assume that some function \( a \in {C}^{\infty }\left( \Omega \right) \) has been given. Then, for every \( \varphi \in {C}_{0}^{\infty }\left( {\mathbb{R}}^{n}\right) \) we may write\n\n\[ \langle {a\delta },\varphi \rangle = \langle \delta ,{a\varphi }\rangle = \l...
\[ \langle {a\delta },\varphi \rangle = \langle \delta ,{a\varphi }\rangle = \left( {a\varphi }\right) \left( 0\right) = a\left( 0\right) \varphi \left( 0\right) = \langle a\left( 0\right) \delta ,\varphi \rangle . \]
Yes
The goal is to solve the equation\n\n\\[ \n{xu} = 1\\;\\text{ in }\\;{\\mathcal{D}}^{\\prime }\\left( \\mathbb{R}\\right) .\n\\]\n\n(2.3.5)
Clearly, this equation does not have a solution \\( u \\) of function type. Recall the distribution defined in Example 2.11. Then for every \\( \\varphi \\in {C}_{0}^{\\infty }\\left( \\mathbb{R}\\right) \\) we may write\n\n\\[ \n\\left\\langle {x\\left( {\\text{ P.V. }\\frac{1}{x}}\\right) ,\\varphi }\\right\\rangle =...
Yes
Proposition 2.39. For each \( \alpha \in {\mathbb{N}}_{0}^{n} \) and each \( u \in {\mathcal{D}}^{\prime }\left( \Omega \right) \) we have \( {\partial }^{\alpha }u \in {\mathcal{D}}^{\prime }\left( \Omega \right) \) .
Proof. Fix \( \alpha \in {\mathbb{N}}_{0}^{n} \) and \( u \in {\mathcal{D}}^{\prime }\left( \Omega \right) \) . That \( {\partial }^{\alpha }u : \mathcal{D}\left( \Omega \right) \rightarrow \mathbb{C} \) is a linear map is easy to see. To prove that it is also continuous, let \( {\varphi }_{j}\xrightarrow[{j \rightarro...
No
Proposition 2.41. Let \( m \in {\mathbb{N}}_{0} \) and assume that\n\n\[ P\left( {x,\partial }\right) \mathrel{\text{:=}} \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{\left| \alpha \right| \leq m}}{a}_{\alpha }\left( x\right) {\partial }^{\alpha },\;{a}_{\alpha } \in {C}^{\infty }\left( \Omega \right) ,\;\alpha \in {\mathbb{N}}_{0}^{n},\;\...
Proof. This follows from (2.4.3), Exercise 2.40, and Exercise 2.30.
No
(1) Any distribution is infinitely differentiable (i.e., \( {\mathcal{D}}^{\prime }\left( \Omega \right) \) is stable under the action of \( {\partial }^{\alpha } \) for any \( \alpha \in {\mathbb{N}}_{0} \) ).
Proof. The first property follows immediately from the definition of distributional derivatives.
No
Proposition 2.48. Let \( I \) be an open interval in \( \mathbb{R}, g \in {C}^{\infty }\left( I\right) \), and \( f \in {C}^{k}\left( I\right) \) for some \( k \in {\mathbb{N}}_{0} \) . If \( u \in {\mathcal{D}}^{\prime }\left( I\right) \) satisfies \( {u}^{\prime } + {gu} = f \) in \( {\mathcal{D}}^{\prime }\left( I\r...
Proof. Fix \( a \in I \) and define \( F\left( x\right) \mathrel{\text{:=}} {\mathrm{e}}^{{\int }_{a}^{x}{g}_{0}\left( t\right) \mathrm{d}t} \) for \( x \in I \) . Then \( F \in {C}^{\infty }\left( I\right) \) and we may use (4) in Proposition 2.43 and the equation satisfied by \( u \) to write (keeping in mind that \(...
Yes
Proposition 2.49 (Generalized Leibniz Formula). Suppose \( f \in {C}^{\infty }\left( \Omega \right) \) and let \( u \in {\mathcal{D}}^{\prime }\left( \Omega \right) \) . Then for every \( \alpha \in {\mathbb{N}}_{0}^{n} \) one has\n\n\[ \n{\partial }^{\alpha }\left( {fu}\right) = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{\beta \leq \alp...
Proof. The first step is to observe that for each \( j \in \{ 1,\ldots, n\} \) and each \( k \in {\mathbb{N}}_{0} \) we\n\nhave\n\[ \n{\partial }_{j}^{k}\left( {fu}\right) = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{0 \leq \ell \leq k}}\frac{k!}{\ell !\left( {k - \ell }\right) !}\left( {{\partial }_{j}^{\ell }f}\right) \left( {{\partial...
Yes
Proposition 2.50. Let \( \Omega \) be a non-empty open subset of \( {\mathbb{R}}^{n} \) and suppose \( \omega \) is a nonempty open subset of \( \Omega \). Also, recall the map \( \iota \) from (1.3.16). Then for every \( u \in \) \( {\mathcal{D}}^{\prime }\left( \Omega \right) \), the mapping arising as the restrictio...
Proof. It is immediate that the map in (2.5.2) is well defined and linear. To see that it is also continuous we use Proposition 2.4. Let \( K \) be a compact set contained in \( \omega \). Then \( K \subset \Omega \) and, since \( u \in {\mathcal{D}}^{\prime }\left( \Omega \right) \), Proposition 2.4 applies and gives ...
Yes
Proposition 2.52. If \( {u}_{1},{u}_{2} \in {\mathcal{D}}^{\prime }\left( \Omega \right) \) are such that for each \( {x}_{0} \in \Omega \) there exists an open subset \( \omega \) of \( \Omega \) with \( {x}_{0} \in \omega \) and satisfying \( {\left. {u}_{1}\right| }_{\omega } = {\left. {u}_{2}\right| }_{\omega } \) ...
Proof. Observe that this proposition may be viewed as a reconstruction problem, thus it is meaningful to try to use a partition of unity. Let \( \varphi \in {C}_{0}^{\infty }\left( \Omega \right) \) be arbitrary, fixed and set \( K \mathrel{\text{:=}} \operatorname{supp}\varphi \) . The goal is to prove that \( \left\l...
Yes
Recall the Dirac distribution \( \delta \) from (2.1.19). We claim that supp \( \delta = \) \( \{ 0\} \) .
Indeed, if \( \varphi \in {C}_{0}^{\infty }\left( {{\mathbb{R}}^{n}\smallsetminus \{ 0\} }\right) \) it follows that \( \langle \delta ,\varphi \rangle = \varphi \left( 0\right) = 0 \) . By Proposition 2.52, \( {\left. \delta \right| }_{{\mathbb{R}}^{n}\smallsetminus \{ 0\} } = 0 \), thus supp \( \delta \subseteq \{ 0\...
Yes
If \( f \in {C}^{0}\left( \Omega \right) \) then \( \operatorname{supp}{u}_{f} = \operatorname{supp}f \), where \( {u}_{f} \) is the distribution from (2.1.6).
Indeed, since \( f = 0 \) in \( \Omega \smallsetminus \operatorname{supp}f \), we have \( {\int }_{\Omega }f\left( x\right) \varphi \left( x\right) \mathrm{d}x = 0 \) for every \( \varphi \in {C}_{0}^{\infty }\left( {\Omega \smallsetminus \operatorname{supp}f}\right) \), hence \( \operatorname{supp}{u}_{f} \subseteq \o...
Yes