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Commutative Algebra 57

Continuing from the previous article, A denotes a noetherian ring and all A-modules are finitely generated. As before all completions are taken to be -stable for a fixed ideal . Noetherianness We wish to prove that the -adic completion of … Continue reading

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Commutative Algebra 34

Nakayama’s Lemma The following is a short statement which has far-reaching applications. Since its main applications are for local rings, we will state the result in this context. Throughout this section, is a fixed local ring. Theorem (Nakayama’s Lemma). Let … Continue reading

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Commutative Algebra 25

Arbitrary Collection of Modules Finally, we consider the case where we have potentially infinitely many modules. Proposition 1. For a collection of A-modules , we have Proof First claim: we will show that the LHS satisfies the universal property for … Continue reading

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Commutative Algebra 23

Localization and Spectrum Recall that the ideals of correspond to a subset of the ideals of A. If we restrict ourselves to prime ideals, we get the following nice bijection. Theorem 1. The above gives a bijection between Useful trick If … Continue reading

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Krull-Schmidt Theorem

Here, we will prove that the process of decomposing is unique, given that M is noetherian and artinian. Again, R is a ring, possibly non-commutative. Definition. A decomposition of an R-module M is an expression for non-zero modules An R-module M is said … Continue reading

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Local Rings

Mathematicians are generally more familiar with the case of local commutative rings, so we’ll begin from there. Definition. A commutative ring R is said to be local if it has a unique maximal ideal. Note that every non-zero commutative ring has … Continue reading

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