Theorem 59.19.2. Let \mathcal{C} be a site. For any covering \mathcal{U} = \{ U_ i \to U\} _{i \in I} of U \in \mathop{\mathrm{Ob}}\nolimits (\mathcal{C}) and any abelian sheaf \mathcal{F} on \mathcal{C} there is a spectral sequence
E_2^{p, q} = \check H^ p(\mathcal{U}, \underline{H}^ q(\mathcal{F})) \Rightarrow H^{p+q}(U, \mathcal{F}),
where \underline{H}^ q(\mathcal{F}) is the abelian presheaf V \mapsto H^ q(V, \mathcal{F}).
Proof.
Choose an injective resolution \mathcal{F}\to \mathcal{I}^\bullet in \textit{Ab}(\mathcal{C}), and consider the double complex \check{\mathcal{C}}^\bullet (\mathcal{U}, \mathcal{I}^\bullet ) and the maps
\xymatrix{ \Gamma (U, I^\bullet ) \ar[r] & \check{\mathcal{C}}^\bullet (\mathcal{U}, \mathcal{I}^\bullet ) \\ & \check{\mathcal{C}}^\bullet (\mathcal{U}, \mathcal{F}) \ar[u] }
Here the horizontal map is the natural map \Gamma (U, I^\bullet ) \to \check{\mathcal{C}}^0(\mathcal{U}, \mathcal{I}^\bullet ) to the left column, and the vertical map is induced by \mathcal{F}\to \mathcal{I}^0 and lands in the bottom row. By assumption, \mathcal{I}^\bullet is a complex of injectives in \textit{Ab}(\mathcal{C}), hence by Lemma 59.19.1, it is a complex of injectives in \textit{PAb}(\mathcal{C}). Thus, the rows of the double complex are exact in positive degrees (Lemma 59.18.7), and the kernel of \check{\mathcal{C}}^0(\mathcal{U}, \mathcal{I}^\bullet ) \to \check{\mathcal{C}}^1(\mathcal{U}, \mathcal{I}^\bullet ) is equal to \Gamma (U, \mathcal{I}^\bullet ), since \mathcal{I}^\bullet is a complex of sheaves. In particular, the cohomology of the total complex is the standard cohomology of the global sections functor H^0(U, \mathcal{F}).
For the vertical direction, the qth cohomology group of the pth column is
\prod _{i_0, \ldots , i_ p} H^ q(U_{i_0} \times _ U \ldots \times _ U U_{i_ p}, \mathcal{F}) = \prod _{i_0, \ldots , i_ p} \underline{H}^ q(\mathcal{F})(U_{i_0} \times _ U \ldots \times _ U U_{i_ p})
in the entry E_1^{p, q}. So this is a standard double complex spectral sequence, and the E_2-page is as prescribed. For more details see Cohomology on Sites, Lemma 21.10.6.
\square
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