Global sections of quasicoherent modules on an affine scheme #
Mathlib's AlgebraicGeometry.tildeEquiv identifies quasicoherent modules on Spec R with
R-modules. Consequently an epimorphism between quasicoherent modules is surjective on global
sections, even when the epimorphism is taken in the category of all sheaves of modules.
Consequently, global sections preserve short exact sequences whose middle and right terms are quasicoherent. This is the affine exactness step used in Serre's affine acyclicity theorem; see Hartshorne, Algebraic Geometry, Chapter III, Theorem 3.5.
The file also records the base-ring action on affine global sections and extensionality of sections by restriction to basic opens.
The global-section functor on Spec R is right adjoint to the tilde functor.
An epimorphism between quasicoherent sheaves on an affine scheme is surjective on global sections.
Taking global sections preserves a short exact sequence whose middle and right terms are
quasicoherent sheaves on Spec R. The exactness hypothesis is in the ambient category of sheaves
of modules.
On Spec A over Spec R, the base ring maps to global functions through A.
On Spec A over Spec R, the base ring maps to the functions on an open U through A.
The base ring R acts on the global sections of a sheaf of modules on Spec A through A.
The canonical affine chart is a morphism over Spec R when its coordinate ring carries
the algebra structure obtained by restricting the base-ring map.
Two sections over U of a sheaf of modules on Spec A agree if their restrictions to every
basic open D(f) ⊆ U agree.