ExampleConstruction: AI-generatedVerification: AI-adaptedPipeline-generatedverified 2026-09-26 (gpt-6-sol)

How statement and proof provenance work

The first chip identifies the source of the statement or construction; the second identifies the source of its local proof or verification.

Literature-sourced: the exact statement appears in a cited source; only wording and notation differ.
AI-adapted: a semantically identical restatement of literature-sourced material, modulo indexing, notation, and boundary cases adopted by the library.
AI-generated: a genuinely novel statement formulated by AI, with no source for the claim itself.

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regular flat local map with singular closed fibre

Example

For every field $k$ , the local map $k [s]_{(s)} \to k [t]_{(t)}$ , $s \mapsto t^{2}$ , is finite free of rank two between regular DVRs. Its closed fibre is $k [t] / (t^{2})$ and is not regular.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The objects and hypotheses in the example.

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embedding dimension and regular local ring: For a nonzero commutative Noetherian local ring $(R, m, k)$ , define $edim R = \dim_{k} (m / m^{2})$ . The ring is regular local when $edim R = \dim R$ . The cotangent space is intrinsic, and is finite-dimensional because $m$ is finitely generated.

Verification

1.1givenalgebra

Before localization every polynomial in $t$ has a unique expression $a (t^{2}) + t b (t^{2})$ , so $k [t]$ is free on $1, t$ over $k [s]$ . After localizing the base at $(s)$ , call the resulting rank-two free algebra $C$ . If $h (t)$ has nonzero constant term, write $h = a (s) + t b (s)$ . Then $(a + t b) (a - t b) = a (s)^{2} - s b (s)^{2}$ is a unit of the base, since its constant term is $a (0)^{2} \neq 0$ . Thus every such $h$ is a unit of $C$ , proving $C = k [t]_{(t)}$ , also in characteristic two.

2.1F1step 1.1algebra∎

The source and target are regular one-dimensional coordinate local rings (their elements are units times powers of their variable, giving DVRs). The maximal ideal contracts correctly, and freeness makes the map flat. Modulo the source maximal ideal the fibre is $k [t] / (t^{2})$ , whose only prime is $(t)$ , with zero square and one-dimensional cotangent space. Its Krull dimension is zero, so it is singular by the regularity definition.

Depends on

embedding dimension and regular local ring

Used by

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Sources

Exercise 12.40(iii), pp.124–125 (standard reference, not scraped)