Sheaf cohomology on a fiber product of schemes.

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This is 18.2.8 in Vakil's Foundations of Algebraic Geometry.

Let $X$ and $Y$ be quasicompact and separated schemes over a field $k$, and let $F$ be a quasicoherent sheaf on $X$, and $G$ be a quasicoherent sheaf on $Y$. Then, prove that $H^m(X \times_k Y, \pi_1^* F \otimes \pi_2^* G) = \oplus_{p + q = m} H^p(X, F) \otimes_k H^q(Y, G)$.

My attempt is: first I covered $X$ and $Y$ with finitely many affine open sets $(U_i)_{i \in I}$ and $(V_j)_{j \in J}$. Then , I took the tensor product of the two Cech complexes, and showm that the total complex of the resulting double complex is the Cech complex for $\pi_1^* F \otimes \pi_2^* G$.

The last step is to find relate the cohomology of a tensor product of complexes with the cohomology of the original complexes. This is where I got stuck. On the second page of the spectral sequence, I get $E^{i , j}_2 = H^i(X, F) \otimes_k H^j(Y, G)$. But I don't know whether or not the spectral sequence converges here, and if not, how to compute the third page.

Best Answer

I found the solution in Example 3.6 : here.

The idea is that $E^{p, q}_2 = H^p(X, F) \otimes H^q(Y, G)$, which is a quotient of $ker(d_p) \otimes ker(d_q)$, so $d_p \otimes 1$ and $1 \otimes d_q$ both send them to 0. Therefore, the morphisms on all pages after the second page of the spectral sequence are 0, so the spectral sequence converges there.

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