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The intuition behind sheaf cohomology is to measure the failure of a certain ‘local-to-global’ principle. A sheaf is a tool that assigns data (like functions or vector spaces) to open sets of a topological space in a consistent way. The global sections functor, which takes a sheaf [latex]\mathcal{F}[/latex] and returns its group of global sections [latex]\Gamma(X, \mathcal{F})[/latex], is left exact but not always right exact. Sheaf cohomology groups are defined as the right derived functors of the global sections functor. This abstract definition from homological algebra provides a robust computational and theoretical framework.

In practice, [latex]H^1(X, \mathcal{F})[/latex] often classifies certain geometric objects. For example, if [latex]\mathcal{O}^*[/latex] is the sheaf of non-vanishing regular functions, [latex]H^1(X, \mathcal{O}^*)[/latex] classifies line bundles on the scheme [latex]X[/latex]. The vanishing of cohomology groups has strong geometric consequences; for instance, Kodaira’s vanishing theorem states that for ample line bundles on a projective variety in characteristic zero, certain cohomology groups are zero, which has profound implications for the geometry of the variety. Serre’s FAC paper and Grothendieck’s Tohoku paper established sheaf cohomology as the correct language for algebraic geometry, replacing older, more ad-hoc methods.