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A module-finite algebra over a Noetherian ring is a Noetherian ring, and so is every ring between the two

Statement

Let A be a Noetherian commutative ring and let B be a commutative A-algebra that is module-finite over A (Subalgebra generated by a subset, algebras of finite type, and module-finite algebras). Then:

  1. B is a Noetherian ring;
  2. if in addition the A-algebra structure map is the inclusion of A as a subring of B (Subring: a subset containing 1R and closed under addition, additive inverses and multiplication), then every subring C of B with ACB is module-finite over A and is a Noetherian ring;
  3. every finitely generated B-module is finitely generated as an A-module, and hence is a Noetherian A-module.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: A Noetherian commutative ring A, a commutative A-algebra B with structure map ηB ⁣:AB that is module-finite over A, and, for the second clause, the additional hypotheses that ηB is the inclusion of A as a subring of B and that C is a subring of B with ACB (Subring: a subset containing 1R and closed under addition, additive inverses and multiplication).

[L1]

B is module-finite over A when it is finitely generated as an A-module (Subalgebra generated by a subset, algebras of finite type, and module-finite algebras).

[L2]

An A-algebra is a unital ring B with a unital ring homomorphism ηB ⁣:AB of central image, and the induced scalar action ab:=ηB(a)b makes B an A-module (Algebras over a commutative ring, central structure maps, and algebra homomorphisms).

[L3]

Every finitely generated left module over a left Noetherian ring is Noetherian (Finitely generated modules over a left Noetherian ring are Noetherian).

[L4]

In a commutative ring, (S) consists of finite sums risi, and (a)=Ra (In a commutative ring, (S) consists of finite sums risi, and (a)=Ra).

[L5]

A left R-module is Noetherian when every submodule of it is finitely generated (Noetherian modules: every submodule is finitely generated).

[L7]

A subset NM of a left R-module is a submodule when it is a subgroup of the additive group of M and is closed under scalars (Submodule of a module).

[L8]

If B is generated as an A-module by b1,,bm and a B-module M is generated as a B-module by u1,,un, then the mn products biuj generate M as an A-module (Module finiteness is transitive along a tower of algebras).

Proof

technique · direct
1.1

Let B be any commutative A-algebra that is module-finite over A. Then B is a finitely generated module over the Noetherian ring A, hence a Noetherian A-module: every A-submodule of B is finitely generated over A. This applies in particular to B=B.

L1L2L3L5given
2.1

First clause. Let b be an ideal of B. It is an additive subgroup of B closed under the A-action, since ax=ηB(a)xb for xb, so it is an A-submodule and therefore generated over A by finitely many x1,,xkb. Every element of b is then iηB(ai)xi, which lies in the ideal (x1,,xk) of B; and that ideal is contained in b because each xi lies in b. So b=(x1,,xk) is finitely generated as an ideal, and B is a Noetherian ring. Taking B=B gives the first clause.

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2.2

Second clause, first half. Suppose the A-algebra structure map is the inclusion AB and C is a subring of B with ACB. Then C is an additive subgroup of B closed under the A-action, because ax=ax is a product of two elements of C; so C is an A-submodule of the Noetherian A-module B and is therefore finitely generated as an A-module, that is, module-finite over A.

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2.3

Third clause. Let M be a finitely generated B-module, say generated over B by u1,,un, and let b1,,bm generate B over A. The mn products biuj generate M as an A-module, so M is a finitely generated A-module and hence a Noetherian A-module.

L1L3L8step 1.1
3.1

Step 2.2 makes C a commutative A-algebra, through the inclusion AC, that is module-finite over A; steps 1.1 and 2.1 were proved for an arbitrary such algebra, so applying them with B=C makes C a Noetherian ring. With steps 2.1 and 2.3 this establishes all three clauses.

step 2.1step 2.2step 2.3

Remarks

  • The intermediate-ring clause is the one that gets used. It says nothing about C being of finite type over A as an algebra, only that it is module-finite, which is stronger; the Artin–Tate lemma is what handles the situation where only C sits between A and a finite-type algebra without B being module-finite over A.

  • Module-finite is strictly stronger than finite type here. A finite-type algebra over a Noetherian ring is Noetherian as well, but its ideals need not be finitely generated over the base ring, and the argument of step 2.1 would not run.

  • The hypothesis that A is a subring is used only in the second clause. Clauses 1 and 3 need no injectivity of ηB.

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