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Surface complete equicharacteristic formal fibres
Statement
Assume AC. For a complete equicharacteristic Noetherian local ring and primes , the formal fibre is geometrically regular over .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A complete equicharacteristic Noetherian local ring and primes of .
cor-complete-local-domain-finite-over-a-regular-power-series-ring. Assume the Axiom of Choice. Let be a complete equicharacteristic Noetherian local domain of dimension . Then there exists a coefficient field and an injective local homomorphism whose image is a regular complete local subring over which is module-finite. (A complete local domain is finite over a regular power-series ring)
def-axiom-of-choice. The Axiom of Choice (AC) is the following statement. > Every family of nonempty sets has a choice function > (def-choice-function). Written out: for every set all of whose members are nonempty, there exists a function with domain satisfying for all . (The Axiom of Choice)
def-dependent-choice. Let be a set and let be a binary relation on . Call entire on when The Axiom of Dependent Choice, written , is the following statement. (The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an -indexed chain)
lem-surface-finite-completion-factors. Assume AC. For a finite map of Noetherian rings and , . The finitely many factors use their maximal-adic completions. Thus formal fibres for finite extensions are factors of residue-field base changes of the original formal fibres. (Surface finite completion factors)
lem-surface-generic-power-series-formal-fibres. Assume AC. For and , every completed local generic fibre is geometrically regular over . (Surface generic power series formal fibres)
Proof
Replacing by the complete local domain reduces the assertion to generic formal fibres: completion commutes with passing to the quotient, so the formal fibre at of the original ring is the generic formal fibre of the quotient, and it suffices to treat .
For the complete local domain , choose a finite regular power-series subring . Put , and . The finite-completion-factor isomorphism , tensored over with , identifies as a direct-product factor of .
The generic formal fibre of is geometrically regular by the power-series supplier. Its base change to the finite field extension remains geometrically regular: any finitely generated field extension of is finitely generated over . A direct-product factor is a localization at an idempotent, so it and all these field base changes are regular. Thus the chosen generic formal fibre of is geometrically regular. This uses a product factor, never stability under arbitrary quotients.
Hence the formal fibre is geometrically regular over for every pair of primes ; the Axiom of Choice and the Axiom of Dependent Choice are inherited from the completion suppliers.
Remarks
- The reduction to q=0 is the only place the quotient of the base by q is used; the finite-factor and power-series lemmas do the rest.
- The quotient reduction is an equality of formal fibres; the finite extension step takes a direct-product factor of a field base change. Arbitrary quotients of regular rings need not be regular.
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Sources
- The Stacks Project: full proof imports for normal-surface resolution, lemma-check-G-ring-easy, proposition-Noetherian-complete-G-ring (standard reference, not scraped)