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Associated primes of a localized finite module come from upstairs
Statement
Let be a Noetherian commutative ring, let be a finitely generated left -module, and let be multiplicative. If
then there exists with and .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A Noetherian commutative ring , a finitely generated left -module , a multiplicative subset , and a prime ideal .
A prime ideal is associated to a module exactly when it is the annihilator of some element (Associated primes of a module).
The annihilator of an element is the set of scalars that kill it (Annihilators, torsion elements and the torsion subset of a module).
In a Noetherian commutative ring, every ideal is 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).
Prime ideals of correspond exactly to primes of disjoint from , via (Prime ideals of a localization are exactly the primes disjoint from the denominator set).
Proof
By [L1], choose with and . Write with and . Since is a unit of , the element is also nonzero and has the same annihilator . By [L4], there is a prime ideal with and . If , then annihilates , so and therefore . Thus .
By [L3], write . Since each , there exists with in . Put . Then , because is a unit and . Also each generator kills , so .
If , then annihilates . Since is a unit, also annihilates , so and therefore by step 1.1. Hence , and step 2.1 gives .
The prime ideal is therefore the annihilator of the nonzero element , so by [L1]. Together with step 1.1, this proves the claim.
Depends on
- Associated primes of a module
- Annihilators, torsion elements and the torsion subset of a module
- 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
- Prime ideals of a localization are exactly the primes disjoint from the denominator set
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Sources
- A. Altman and S. Kleiman, A Term of Commutative Algebra, 13th ed., Proposition (17.10) (standard reference, not scraped)
- The Stacks Project, Lemma 10.63.15(2) and Lemma 10.63.16 (standard reference, not scraped)