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Fields and are Noetherian, and so are their polynomial rings in finitely many variables
Example
Every field (Field) is a Noetherian ring, and so is . Consequently and are Noetherian for every (If is Noetherian then is Noetherian for every ).
What is asserted is that every ideal of each of these rings is finitely generated. No description of the ideals of or is claimed, and for none is available from this argument.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A field , the ring of integers, and .
A field is a set with two operations and distinguished elements such that is an abelian group, multiplication is associative and commutative on all of with , every has a multiplicative inverse, and multiplication distributes over addition (Field).
Every subgroup equals for exactly one natural number ; in particular every subgroup of is cyclic (Every subgroup of is for exactly one natural number ).
For , is the intersection of all two-sided ideals containing ; is written and is called principal (The ideal generated by a subset and principal ideals).
An ideal of a ring is in particular an additive subgroup of it (Left, right and two-sided ideals).
In a commutative ring, consists of finite sums , and (In a commutative ring, consists of finite sums , and ).
For a commutative ring, being Noetherian is equivalent to every ideal being finitely generated (A commutative ring is Noetherian exactly when every ideal is finitely generated, exactly when its ideals satisfy the ascending chain condition, and exactly when every nonempty set of ideals has a maximal member).
If is a Noetherian commutative ring then is Noetherian for every (If is Noetherian then is Noetherian for every ).
Verification
Let be an ideal of a field . If then . Otherwise contains some , which has an inverse in , so and hence for every , giving . Either way is generated by one element, so every ideal of is finitely generated and is Noetherian.
Let be an ideal of . It is an additive subgroup of , so it equals for some natural number ; and . So every ideal of is principal, hence finitely generated, and is Noetherian.
Since and are Noetherian commutative rings, and are Noetherian for every , the case returning the base rings themselves.
Remarks
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A field is Noetherian for a reason that says nothing about size. The argument in step 1.1 uses only invertibility of nonzero elements, so it applies to , to and to a field with infinite transcendence degree over its prime subfield alike.
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The conclusion is finite generation, not principality. For the ideal generated by and in is not principal, and the Noetherian condition does not claim otherwise.
Depends on
- A commutative ring is Noetherian exactly when every ideal is finitely generated, exactly when its ideals satisfy the ascending chain condition, and exactly when every nonempty set of ideals has a maximal member
- If $R$ is Noetherian then $R[x_1,\ldots,x_n]$ is Noetherian for every $n\in\mathbb N$
- Field
- Every subgroup of $(\mathbb{Z}, +)$ is $\langle n \rangle = n\mathbb{Z}$ for exactly one natural number $n$
- The ideal generated by a subset and principal ideals
- Left, right and two-sided ideals
- In a commutative ring, $(S)$ consists of finite sums $\sum r_i s_i$, and $(a)=Ra$
Used by
- An algebra that is finite dimensional as a vector space over a field is a Noetherian ring Example
- Hom_ℤ(ℤ/m,ℤ/n)≅ℤ/gcd(m,n) for n≥1 Example
- Identifying the coefficient algebra in a concrete Artin–Tate tower Example
- k[x,y]/(xy) and ℤ[x]/(x²-2) are Noetherian without classifying their ideals Example
- The subalgebra k[x,xy,xy²,…] of k[x,y] is not Noetherian Example
- The symmetric polynomials as the invariant ring of the symmetric group, seen through Noether's finiteness theorem Example
- Working the Hilbert basis construction on an ideal of ℤ[x] with non-monic stages Example
- False statement: in a Noetherian ring there is a single bound on the number of generators an ideal needs False statement
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Sources
- B. Totaro, Commutative Algebra (Michaelmas 2011), notes by Z. Norwood, §8 (standard reference, not scraped)
- J. S. Milne, A Primer of Commutative Algebra, v4.03, §3 (standard reference, not scraped)