Une extension du théorème de Borel-Weil. (An extension of the Borel- Weil theorem) (Q2639112)

Fix a reductive group. A spherical variety is one on which this group acts so that some Borel subgroup has a dense orbit. The main result shows that for any proper equivariant morphism \(\pi\) of spherical varieties the higher derived functors \(R^ i\pi_*L (i>0)\) vanish for any line bundle L generated by its global sections. The proof is by reduction to the case of a birational morphism with rational singularities and L trivial. Consequences are that \(L^{-1}\) has only one non-vanishing cohomology group, corresponding to the Kodaira dimension of L, and a generalisation replacing L by an integrally closed fractional ideal sheaf.