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Prime-ideal valuations of a fractional ideal have finite support and add under products
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Choice. Let be a Dedekind domain and let be nonzero fractional ideals. Then for all but finitely many nonzero prime ideals , and for every nonzero prime ideal .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A Dedekind domain and nonzero fractional ideals .
The valuation is defined by the equality (Prime-ideal valuations on fractional ideals).
Fractional-ideal products are well defined inside the common fraction field (The basic operations on fractional ideals are well defined).
A Dedekind domain is a Noetherian integrally closed domain of dimension (Dedekind domains).
Prime ideals of a quotient ring correspond exactly to prime ideals containing the quotient ideal (Prime ideals of a quotient ring are exactly the prime ideals containing the ideal).
Quotients of Noetherian rings are Noetherian (Every quotient and every localisation of a Noetherian ring is Noetherian).
Assuming Choice, a Noetherian ring is Artinian exactly when every prime ideal is maximal (A Noetherian ring is Artinian exactly when every prime ideal is maximal).
An Artinian ring has only finitely many maximal ideals (An Artinian ring has only finitely many maximal ideals).
Proof
Choose and with , and put . If a nonzero prime ideal contains neither nor , then both and are units in , so is a unit of . Hence , so and therefore .
Put . If is a unit, then no nonzero prime ideal contains . Otherwise every prime ideal containing is nonzero, hence maximal because [F2] gives . By [L2], every prime ideal of is therefore maximal. The quotient is Noetherian by [L3], so [L4] makes it Artinian, and then [L5] gives only finitely many maximal ideals. Translating back through [L2], only finitely many nonzero prime ideals of contain .
Combining steps 1.1 and 2.1, only finitely many nonzero prime ideals can satisfy .
Fix a nonzero prime ideal . By [F1], write and . Localizing the defining finite sums for a product gives , so .
Depends on
- Prime-ideal valuations on fractional ideals
- The basic operations on fractional ideals are well defined
- Dedekind domains
- Prime ideals of a quotient ring are exactly the prime ideals containing the ideal
- Every quotient and every localisation of a Noetherian ring is Noetherian
- A Noetherian ring is Artinian exactly when every prime ideal is maximal
- An Artinian ring has only finitely many maximal ideals
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Sources
- J. P. May, Notes on Dedekind Rings (standard reference, not scraped)
- J. S. Milne, A Primer of Commutative Algebra, §20 (standard reference, not scraped)