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The Finiteness Theorem

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Theory of Stein Spaces

Part of the book series: Classics in Mathematics ((CLASSICS))

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The main purpose of this chapter is to prove the following:

Finiteness Theorem (Cartan, Serre): Let X be a compact complex space. Then for every coherent sheaf S on X all of the cohomology modules H q (X, S), 0 ≤ q ≤ ∞, are finite dimensional ℂ-vector spaces.

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Grauert, H., Remmert, R. (2004). The Finiteness Theorem. In: Theory of Stein Spaces. Classics in Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18921-0_8

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