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A specialization is represented by a complete DVR trait
Statement
Assume AC. Let be locally Noetherian and . There is a morphism , with a Noetherian DVR, carrying its generic point to and its closed point to . Replacing by its completion preserves these two images. One can also arrange that the complete DVR has algebraically closed residue field, allowing extension of both residue and fraction fields. If , a constant trait suffices.
This is a new local support item for A911. The assertion concerns the selected specialization of underlying points. Identification with particular geometric points and paths is additional data, handled by the geometric field and basepoint support items; no independence of that data is asserted.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: AC, , and the selected pair .
A local domain admits a dominating valuation overring under AC (A local domain has a dominating valuation overring, The Axiom of Choice). Algebraic closures exist under AC (Assuming Choice, every field has an algebraic closure).
A prime minimal over a nonzero principal ideal in a Noetherian domain has height one; integral extensions satisfy lying over (Krull's height theorem, Lying over for integral ring maps).
A normal one-dimensional Noetherian local domain is a DVR (Equivalent characterizations of a DVR).
Noetherian local completion is local, Noetherian and faithfully flat, preserves the residue field, and is separated. Krull intersection gives injectivity for a local domain (Completion of a Noetherian local ring is local with the same residue field, The completion of a Noetherian ring is flat, The Krull intersection is the -torsion submodule, and it vanishes in the Jacobson-radical case).
Proof
Choose a Noetherian affine neighbourhood of . It contains , since an open set contains every generalization of each of its points. Write their primes as and set . This is a local Noetherian domain whose generic and closed points map to . If they coincide, take and the constant map. Otherwise is not a field. Let be a valuation ring of dominating , by [F1]. For generators of its maximal ideal choose of smallest valuation. Then is Noetherian and is proper. A prime minimal over it has height one by [F2] and contracts to . Thus is a one-dimensional Noetherian local domain dominating , with the same fraction field.
We give the needed normalization argument even when is not excellent. Put and let be any -submodule. For , put ; finiteness follows since its only prime is maximal and the quotient is Noetherian of dimension zero. If is nonzero and finite over , clear denominators so . The torsion finite module has finite length and is killed by some power , so . Since multiplication by is injective, . For the inclusions imply and , giving . Divide by and let increase to obtain . Any finite strict chain in can be witnessed by finitely many elements of ; the submodule they generate has a chain at least as long in . Thus .
Let be the integral closure of in . For a nonzero ideal , a nonzero can be written with nonzero; hence . Step 2.1 with says has finite length (the unit case gives zero). Therefore is finite over , and lifts of its generators together with generate over . Every ideal of is finite, so is Noetherian. By lying over choose a prime over . Its height is one: after inverting the integral closure is , so the only prime contracting to zero is zero; primes above the maximal ideal cannot be strictly comparable, since localizing and then quotienting by the lower prime gives an integral algebraic domain over a field, hence a field. Thus is normal local Noetherian of dimension one and is a DVR by [F3]. Its local inclusion gives the required two point images.
Let be a uniformizer of . By [F4], is Noetherian local with maximal ideal and the same residue field; flatness makes a nonzerodivisor. Each nonzero element lies in a largest power , because the completion is separated, and is times a unit. Products of two such elements are nonzero, so is a domain, and this description is the DVR property. The map is injective by [F4]; its generic point contracts to zero and its closed point to . Both images in are therefore unchanged.
To make the residue field algebraically closed, fix an algebraic closure of and well order its elements, using AC. At a successor stage, given a DVR with uniformizer and residue subfield , take the monic minimal polynomial of the next element over , lift its coefficients to , and form . This is finite free over , and its reduction modulo is the required residue field extension. Every maximal ideal lies over , so is local with maximal ideal . It is Noetherian; is a nonzerodivisor by freeness and the -adic intersection is zero by Krull intersection. As in step 4.1 every nonzero element is a unit times a power of , proving that is a DVR and that is injective. At limit stages take unions. Every nonzero element is still a unit times a power of the same , and every nonzero ideal has an element of minimal exponent, so is principal. The union is therefore a Noetherian DVR with residue field . Its completion is again a DVR by step 4.1, with residue field . All extensions are local and injective, preserving the point images. AC is used for the valuation overring, algebraic closure and the transfinite choices, and is inherited from the listed suppliers.
Depends on
- Assuming Choice, every field has an algebraic closure
- The Axiom of Choice
- A local domain has a dominating valuation overring
- Krull's height theorem
- Lying over for integral ring maps
- Equivalent characterizations of a DVR
- Completion of a Noetherian local ring is local with the same residue field
- The completion of a Noetherian ring is flat
- The Krull intersection is the $(1-a)$-torsion submodule, and it vanishes in the Jacobson-radical case
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Sources
- Stacks Project, Algebra Lemmas 10.119.1, 10.119.9, 10.119.12, 10.119.13; Tags 00P8, 00PE, 00PG, 00PH (standard reference, not scraped)
- Stacks Project, Fundamental Groups of Schemes, section 16 (0BUP), Lemma 16.4 (0C0N) (standard reference, not scraped)