Friday, 27 August 2010

ag.algebraic geometry - Riemann-Roch and Grothendieck duality: general case of Fulton's example 18.3.19

Fulton's "Intersection theory" book contains the following fact (example 18.3.19):



Let X be a Cohen-Macaulay scheme over a field. Assume X can be imbedded in a smooth scheme (so it has a dualizing sheaf omegaZ) and is of dimension n. If E is locally free coherent sheaf on X, then:
tauk(E)=(1)nktauk(EveeotimesomegaX)()


in Ak(X)mathbbQ, the k-th Chow group of X with rational coefficients. Here tau:K0(X)toA(X)mathbbQ is the generalized Riemann-Roch homomorphism.



The formula follows from a more general one for complexes with coherent cohomology (and without Cohen-Macaulayness):
sum(1)itauk(mathcalHi(Ccdot))=(1)ksum(1)itauk(mathcalHi(RHom(Ccdot,omegacdotX)))()



In a proof I would like to use (*) in a more general setting:




Does anyone know a reference for (**) or (*) when X is imbeddable in a regular scheme, not necessarily over a field (I am willing to assume X is finite over some complete regular local ring)?




The original source of (**) (Fulton-MacPherson "Categorical framework for study of singular spaces") hints that a generalization is possible, then refers to Delign's appendix of Hartshorne "Residues and Duality"! We all know that fleshing out the details there is non-trivial, however.

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