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The ideal class group is the Picard group of rank-one projectives
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Choice. Let be a Dedekind domain. The ideal class group is canonically isomorphic to the Picard group of isomorphism classes of finite projective -modules with , where the group law on the Picard side is induced by tensor product.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A Dedekind domain with fraction field .
Invertible fractional ideals are exactly the finite rank-one projective modules (Invertible fractional ideals are exactly the rank-one projective modules).
The ideal class group is the quotient of nonzero fractional ideals by principal fractional ideals (The ideal class group).
Assuming Choice, a module map is an isomorphism exactly when all maximal localisations are isomorphisms (Assuming the Axiom of Choice, local criteria for zero modules and for injective, surjective, and bijective maps).
The regular module is a tensor unit (The regular module is a tensor unit: and ).
Proof
Send the class of an invertible fractional ideal to the isomorphism class of as an -module. If with , then multiplication by is an -module isomorphism . Therefore the map depends only on the class of in [F1].
For invertible fractional ideals and , multiplication gives an -bilinear map , hence an -linear map . After localising at a maximal ideal , both and are principal by [L1], so identifies with the tensor-unit isomorphism from [L4]. Thus every is an isomorphism, and [L3] makes an isomorphism. Hence the map of step 1.1 is a group homomorphism.
The map is surjective by [L1], because every rank-one projective module is represented by an invertible fractional ideal. If the class of maps to the free module class, choose an isomorphism and let be the image of . Then every element of is , so is principal. Therefore the kernel is trivial.
Steps 1.1, 2.1, and 2.2 prove the asserted canonical isomorphism .
Depends on
- Invertible fractional ideals are exactly the rank-one projective modules
- The ideal class group
- Localisation of modules is exact
- Assuming the Axiom of Choice, local criteria for zero modules and for injective, surjective, and bijective maps
- The regular module is a tensor unit: $R\otimes_RN\cong N$ and $M\otimes_RR\cong M$
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Sources
- J. P. May, Notes on Dedekind Rings (standard reference, not scraped)
- The Stacks Project, Section 10.78: Finite projective modules (standard reference, not scraped)