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Complete separated adic pairs are Henselian
Statement
Let be a commutative ring and let be an ideal. If is -adically complete and separated, then is a Henselian pair.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A commutative ring that is -adically complete and separated.
In an -adically complete ring, every element congruent to modulo is a unit (Elements congruent to modulo a defining ideal are units).
Coprime residue factors admit a lifted Bezout identity modulo (Lift a Bezout identity for coprime residue factors).
One Hensel correction step improves a factorization from modulo to modulo (One correction step raises factor lifting by one ideal power).
The correction sequence is coefficientwise Cauchy and its coefficientwise limit multiplies back to the original polynomial (Successive Hensel corrections are Cauchy, The coefficientwise limits multiply back to the original polynomial).
Two such lifts agree modulo every power of (Two lifted factorisations agree modulo every ideal power).
A Henselian pair is exactly a pair satisfying the Jacobson-radical clause and the unique coprime factor-lifting clause (Henselian pairs and Henselian local rings).
Proof
Let and . Then , so . By [L1], the element is a unit. This is the Jacobson-radical criterion for , so . Hence .
Let be monic and let be a coprime monic factorization in . Choose monic lifts of . By [L2], choose with . Repeatedly applying [L3] produces monic pairs with for every .
By [L4], the coefficient sequences of and are Cauchy and converge to monic polynomials with . Their reductions are still . Thus the required lifted factorization exists.
If is another monic lift of the same residue factorization, then [L5] gives and for every . Separatedness forces and . Hence the lift is unique.
Steps 1.1-3.1 verify both clauses of the definition, so is a Henselian pair.
Depends on
- Henselian pairs and Henselian local rings
- Elements congruent to $1$ modulo a defining ideal are units
- Lift a Bezout identity for coprime residue factors
- Monicity and degree stay fixed during Hensel factor lifting
- One correction step raises factor lifting by one ideal power
- Successive Hensel corrections are Cauchy
- The coefficientwise limits multiply back to the original polynomial
- Two lifted factorisations agree modulo every ideal power
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Sources
- The Stacks Project, Section 15.11: Henselian pairs (standard reference, not scraped)
- Melvin Hochster, The structure theory of complete local rings (standard reference, not scraped)