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Chinese remainder theorem for pairwise comaximal ideals
Statement
Let be a commutative ring and let be pairwise comaximal ideals, where . Then the canonical map
is surjective, its kernel is , and
Equivalently,
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A commutative ring and pairwise comaximal ideals with .
Proof
First take . Choose and with . If , then , so . For classes and , the element satisfies and , so the canonical map is surjective with kernel .
Now assume . Fix and put . For each , choose and with . Expanding shows that and , so . Choose with . Then for every . Given residue classes , the element satisfies for every . Hence the canonical map is surjective.
The kernel of the canonical map is plainly . To compare this with the product, induct on . The case is tautological and the case is step 1.1. For , let . By the induction hypothesis, . Step 2.1 with gives , so applying the two-ideal case to and yields . Therefore .
Depends on
- Left, right and two-sided ideals
- The ideal generated by a subset and principal ideals
- In a commutative ring, $(S)$ consists of finite sums $\sum r_i s_i$, and $(a)=Ra$
- The canonical projection $R\to R/I$ is a surjective ring homomorphism with kernel $I$
- Correspondence theorem: ideals of $R/I$ correspond to ideals of $R$ containing $I$
- The product ring $R \times S$ with componentwise operations, its identity $(1_R, 1_S)$ and its units $R^{\times} \times S^{\times}$
- For a two-sided ideal $I$, the additive cosets form a ring $R/I$ with identity $1+I$
Used by
- ℤ/12ℤ splits as the product of its two local Artinian factors Example
- A Noetherian ring is Artinian exactly when every prime ideal is maximal Theorem
- An Artinian ring is canonically the finite product of its localizations at its maximal ideals Theorem
- Every commutative Artinian ring is Noetherian Theorem
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Sources
- A. Altman and S. Kleiman, A Term of Commutative Algebra, 13th ed., Exercise (1.14) (standard reference, not scraped)
- J. S. Milne, A Primer of Commutative Algebra, v4.03, Theorem 2.13 (standard reference, not scraped)