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Kähler differentials commute with localization
Statement
Let be a homomorphism of commutative rings, let be a multiplicative subset and let be a multiplicative subset with . Then the canonical -linear map induced by the localization map , namely
is an isomorphism of -modules. The subsets and are allowed; in the second case the map is the identity on . No finiteness hypothesis is imposed on over , and the result is not asserted for an arbitrary ring homomorphism that is not a localization.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A ring homomorphism , a multiplicative subset and a multiplicative subset with .
Derivations are maps out of Ω: for every ring map with Kähler differential module and every -module , composition with is a natural -module isomorphism .
Localisation of a module at a multiplicative subset: the localization of an -module consists of the classes with , the canonical map is , and the elements of are exactly the classes .
Universal property of localisation for modules: for an -linear map with an -module, there is a unique -linear with .
Universal property of localisation: maps that invert factor uniquely through : if sends every to a unit, there is a unique unital ring homomorphism with , given by .
Derivation of an algebra: derivations are additive, constant on the base and satisfy the Leibniz rule, and these three laws characterise ring sections of the square-zero extension by .
Multiplicative subsets and the localisation as equivalence classes of fractions: is a commutative ring, is a ring homomorphism, each maps to a unit , and is defined likewise.
Proof
The canonical map. Since , [F4] extends uniquely to a ring map , and is an -algebra homomorphism, and the composite is an -derivation of into : it is additive, kills , and satisfies Leibniz. By [F1] it corresponds to a -linear with , and by [F3] applied to the canonical map the map factors uniquely through a -linear map with ; in particular . This is the canonical map of the statement.
A derivation of the localization. Let with the product , a commutative ring in which the second summand is an ideal of square zero, and let , . Then is a unital ring homomorphism: it is additive, and multiplicativity is exactly the Leibniz rule of [F5]. For the element is a unit of with inverse , since . By [F4] there is a unique unital ring homomorphism with ; writing , the first coordinate is a unital ring homomorphism with , so by the uniqueness clause of [F4] applied to the identity. Hence .
The second coordinate is a derivation. Multiplicativity of in the square-zero extension gives , and additivity of gives . For we have , so kills ; since also kills for and satisfies Leibniz with , it kills the inverse of each such unit, hence the image of . So is a -derivation of into the -module , and by [F1] it corresponds to a -linear map with .
The two maps are inverse. For and , multiplicativity of gives , and because with from ; hence . Therefore , the last equality being the derivation identity for the fraction with invertible, obtained from the Leibniz rule and . Since the elements generate over , this gives . Conversely for all , , and the elements generate over by [F2], so . Hence is an isomorphism. Taking gives and taking makes the identity, so both degenerate cases are covered by the same computation.
Depends on
- Derivations are maps out of Ω
- Localisation of a module at a multiplicative subset
- Universal property of localisation for modules
- Universal property of localisation: maps that invert $S$ factor uniquely through $S^{-1}R$
- Derivation of an algebra
- Multiplicative subsets and the localisation $S^{-1}R$ as equivalence classes of fractions
Used by
- Relative differential-rank condition Definition
- Affine charts recover the algebraic module of differentials Lemma
- Finite-type field extensions with zero Ω Lemma
- Unramified residue extensions are finite separable Lemma
- Cotangent space at a rational point Theorem
- Tangent vectors as dual-number points Theorem
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Sources
- Stacks Algebra 10.131.8 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Vakil §22.2.L, pp.583–584 (standard reference, not scraped)