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TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.LineBundle.Stalk

Stalks of invertible sheaves #

The stalk of an invertible sheaf M on a scheme X at a point x is free of rank one over the local ring 𝒪_{X,x}: the germ of the basis section of a rank-one trivialization near x is a basis. This is the pointwise form of local freeness used to read off local generators of a line bundle, for instance of the sheaf of differentials of a smooth curve.

Main results #

The germ of the basis section of a rank-one trivialization generates the stalk: every germ of a section of M is a germ of a regular function times it.

The stalk of an invertible sheaf is free of rank one. The stalk M_x of an invertible sheaf is isomorphic to the local ring 𝒪_{X,x} as a module over it.

The stalk of an invertible sheaf is a free module over the local ring.

The stalk of an invertible sheaf has rank one over the local ring.

A generator of the stalk of an invertible sheaf is a basis. If the germ g generates the stalk M_x, then a ↦ a • g is a bijection from the local ring 𝒪_{X,x} onto M_x: since M_x is isomorphic to 𝒪_{X,x}, a surjective endomorphism of it is injective.

A multiple a • g generates the stalk of an invertible sheaf exactly when a is a unit of the local ring and g generates the stalk.