Serre's theorem on affineness

In the mathematical discipline of algebraic geometry, Serre's theorem on affineness (also called Serre's cohomological characterization of affineness or Serre's criterion on affineness) is a theorem due to Jean-Pierre Serre which gives sufficient conditions for a scheme to be affine.[1] The theorem was first published by Serre in 1957.[2]

Statement

Let X be a scheme with structure sheaf OX. If:

(1) X is quasi-compact, and
(2) for every quasi-coherent ideal sheaf I of OX-modules, H1(X, I) = 0,[lower-alpha 1]

then X is affine.[3]

  • A special case of this theorem arises when X is an algebraic variety, in which case the conditions of the theorem imply that X is an affine variety.
  • A similar result has stricter conditions on X but looser conditions on the cohomology: if X is a quasi-separated, quasi-compact scheme, and if H1(X, I) = 0 for any quasi-coherent sheaf of ideals I of finite type, then X is affine.[4]

Notes
  1. Some texts, such as Ueno (2001, pp. 128–133), require that Hi(X,I) = 0 for all i ≥ 1 as a condition for the theorem. In fact, this is equivalent to condition (2) above.

References
  1. Stacks 01XF.
  2. Serre (1957).
  3. Stacks 01XF.
  4. Stacks 01XE, Lemma 29.3.2.

Bibliography
  • Hartshorne, Robin (1977), Algebraic Geometry, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 52, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-0-387-90244-9, MR 0463157
  • Serre, Jean-Pierre (1957). "Sur la cohomologie des variétés algébriques". J. Math. Pures Appl. Series 9. 36: 1–16.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • The Stacks Project authors. "Section 29.3 (01XE):Vanishing of cohomology—The Stacks Project".
  • The Stacks Project authors. "Lemma 29.3.1 (01XF)—The Stacks Project".
  • Ueno, Kenji (2001). Algebraic Geomety II: Sheaves and Cohomology. Translations of Mathematical Monographs. 197. AMS. ISBN 978-0-8218-1357-7.
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