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In algebraic geometry, a reflexive sheaf is a coherent sheaf that is isomorphic to its second dual (as a sheaf of modules) via the canonical map. The second dual of a coherent sheaf is called the reflexive hull of the sheaf. A basic example of a reflexive sheaf is a locally free sheaf and, in practice, a reflexive sheaf is thought of as a kind of a vector bundle modulo some singularity. The notion is important both in scheme theory and complex algebraic geometry.

A reflexive sheaf is torsion-free. The dual of a coherent sheaf is reflexive.[1]

A coherent sheaf F is said to be "normal" in the sense of Barth if the restriction \( F(U) \to F(U - Y) \) is bijective for every open subset U and a closed subset Y of U of codimension at least 2. With this terminology, a coherent sheaf on an integral normal scheme is reflexive if and only if it is torsion-free and normal in the sense of Barth.[2] A reflexive sheaf of rank one on an integral locally factorial scheme is invertible.[3]

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