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Generated submodule, cyclic and finitely generated modules, module basis and free module
Definition
Let be a left -module and . The submodule generated by is
The family is nonempty because , and its intersection is a submodule by The one-step submodule criterion; intersections and sums of submodules are submodules. Thus is the smallest submodule of containing , just as The subgroup generated by a subset, the cyclic subgroup , and cyclic groups defines a generated subgroup.
The module is cyclic if for some , and finitely generated if for some finite . A subset is a basis if every element of has a unique expression as a finite -linear combination of elements of . A module possessing a basis is a free -module.
Depends on
Used by
- Assuming the Axiom of Choice, generators modulo an ideal in the Jacobson radical lift to generators Corollary
- Euler characteristic in a proper flat family is locally constant Corollary
- Exact finite tensor functors have projective right-module kernels Corollary
- Finite-dimensional coherent cohomology over a field Corollary
- Over a Noetherian ring the homomorphism module between two finitely generated modules is finitely generated Corollary
- Upper semicontinuity of fibre cohomology dimensions Corollary
- A Deligne kernel need not be one external tensor factor Counterexample
- A projective generator need not be small Counterexample
- The left-to-right exact equivalence need not preserve the identity Counterexample
- ℤ/nℤ is generated but not free as a ℤ-module for n>1 Counterexample
- Finite graded projective modules Definition
- Finite morphisms of classical varieties Definition
- Finitely presented modules and finitely presented algebras Definition
- Invariant factors and elementary divisors of a finitely generated module over a PID Definition
- Minimal Free Resolution Over A Local Ring Definition
- Noetherian commutative rings and modules Definition
- Noetherian modules: every submodule is finitely generated Definition
- Perfect complexes over a ring and its graded version Definition
- Small projective generators and progenerators Definition
- Span, finite generation and generation degree of an FI-module Definition
- Subalgebra generated by a subset, algebras of finite type, and module-finite algebras Definition
- The free module on a set and its standard basis Definition
- Closed immersion from a quotient ring Example
- Fitting ideals of a diagonal two-by-two presentation Example
- Matrix-unit rotation for a k–Mₙ(k) Morita pair Example
- The free-group functor F:Set toGrp and free-module functor R⁽⁻⁾:Set→ R-Mod Example
- The kernel end and coend distinguish the regular and co-regular bimodules Example
- FALSE: every finitely generated module over a domain is a direct sum of cyclic modules False statement
- FALSE: every torsion-free module over a PID is free False statement
- A finite module has the union of its generator-cyclic supports Lemma
- Bilinear right exact functors are determined by their value on the regular modules Lemma
- Closed immersions are proper Lemma
- Determinant trick for Nakayama Lemma
- Double bar comparison for cyclic bimodule tensor products Lemma
- Elementary ideals are independent of the presentation Lemma
- Every generating set of a finitely generated module contains a finite generating subset Lemma
- Finite is affine and local on its target Lemma
- Finite modules over Noetherian rings are Noetherian Lemma
- Finite normalization commutes with principal localization Lemma
- Finite projective complex for proper flat coherent cohomology Lemma
…and 36 more results.
Dependency tree · two levels
9 results within two dependency steps of this one, each drawn at its shortest distance from it. An arrow runs from a result to what uses it, so the chart reads left to right and ends at this result, which carries a heavier outline. Every node is a link to that result. Click elsewhere on the chart to enlarge it.
Sources
- McGerty, Algebra II: Rings and Modules, Section 3 (standard reference, not scraped)