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Two coprime projective plane forms meet in total length equal to their degree product
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Choice. Let be a field, let and let be nonzero homogeneous forms of positive degrees and that have no common nonconstant factor. Put , a standard graded -algebra with the images of the variables of degree one, and let carry its standard charts , . Then:
- is nonempty and finite, every chart ring is either zero or of Krull dimension , and the total length of Total length of a zero-dimensional projective scheme is a finite sum over the finitely many points of .
- : the projective plane complete intersection has total length equal to the product of the degrees.
- In the chart the chart ring is , where are the dehomogenisations of and with respect to (the images under , for ); consequently, for a point with corresponding prime , the local algebra is the localisation of the quotient at .
The coordinate ring itself has dimension one and is not Artinian; the statement is about the scheme and its local lengths only, and it holds over an arbitrary field with the residue-degree weights .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The Axiom of Choice, a field , the polynomial ring , nonzero homogeneous forms of positive degrees without common nonconstant factor, the standard graded quotient , its standard charts with , and .
, each standard chart is empty or of Krull dimension (Krull dimension of a nonzero ring), and , so is not Artinian (A plane intersection with no common component is nonempty and zero-dimensional). The spectrum of a ring is empty exactly for the zero ring: the zero ring has no prime ideal, while every nonzero commutative ring has a maximal ideal, which is prime (Prime ideals and maximal ideals in a commutative ring, In a nonzero commutative ring, every proper ideal is contained in a maximal ideal, Every maximal ideal of a commutative ring is prime); hence the chartwise zero-dimensionality hypothesis "every is zero or of Krull dimension " holds.
Assume AC. For such : has finitely many points, each local ring is a finite-dimensional local -algebra with finite length and finite residue degree, and is the finite disjoint union of the spectra of its local rings (A zero-dimensional projective scheme has finitely many closed points with finite-dimensional local rings).
Assume AC. The total length of the zero-dimensional is , a finite sum over the points of , with (Total length of a zero-dimensional projective scheme).
is an -regular sequence, because are homogeneous of positive degree and share no nonconstant factor (Coprime positive-degree plane forms form a regular sequence, Regular Sequence On A Module).
For an -regular pair of positive degrees the Hilbert function of is constantly equal to in every degree (Hilbert series and eventual Hilbert value of a two-form plane complete intersection, The Hilbert function and formal Hilbert series of a graded module with finite-length pieces).
Assume AC. For a homogeneous ideal whose standard chart rings are zero or of Krull dimension , the eventual value of the Hilbert function of equals the total length: for all sufficiently large (The eventual Hilbert function of a zero-dimensional projective quotient equals its total length).
If corresponds to the prime , then is a localisation of the chart ring (Prime and local-ring correspondence on standard projective charts).
Localisation at a homogeneous element of degree of a nonnegatively graded ring is graded by with degree-preserving localisation map, and for of degree one and an ideal generated by homogeneous elements one has (Localisation at a homogeneous element is graded, with graded kernels and dehomogenised degree-zero parts, Nonnegatively graded rings and modules, homogeneous elements, and twists). Moreover, if is a unital ring homomorphism with a unit, then extends uniquely to (Universal property of localisation: maps that invert factor uniquely through , Multiplicative subsets and the localisation as equivalence classes of fractions, Principal localisation ); in the polynomial ring every element is a finite -linear combination of monomials of total degree (The polynomial ring over a commutative ring as finitely supported coefficient sequences with convolution, Monomials, coefficients, degree in each variable and total degree in , homogeneous polynomial and homogeneous ideal).
Assume AC (declared for consumers). The Axiom of Choice
Proof
For each let be the substitution , for , with unique extension , and let , ; then , so is injective with inverse on the degree-zero part, and is surjective because a degree-zero element is with , a -linear combination of monomials of degree , and ; hence is an isomorphism.
By [L1] , the charts are empty or of dimension , hence each is zero or of Krull dimension , and ; so the hypothesis of [L6] is met, and by [L2] and [L3] the set is finite with local rings of finite length and the total length is the displayed finite sum .
By [L4] the pair is -regular and , so by [L5] for every .
The quotient is standard graded with degree-preserving quotient map, so by [L8] applied with (degree one) and the chart ring is ; under the isomorphism of step 1.1 the two generators correspond to and , the dehomogenisations; hence , which is claim 3 in the charts, and by [L7] the local algebra at is the localisation of this quotient at the corresponding prime.
By [L6] applied to the homogeneous ideal , whose chart rings are zero or of dimension by step 1.2 and whose quotient is , there is with for every .
Taking any , which exists, step 1.3 gives and step 2.2 gives ; hence , which is claim 2.
Claims 1 and 3 hold by steps 1.2 and 2.1, and claim 2 by step 3.1; the Axiom of Choice enters through the nonempty zero-dimensional intersection and prime-existence suppliers of [L1], the finite-support and total-length suppliers of [L2] and [L3], and the eventual-value supplier of [L6], the coordinate ring is not claimed to be Artinian by the dimension statement of [L1], the Axiom of Choice is the standing assumption [L9] declared for consumers, and no saturation or closedness of is used.
Depends on
- The Axiom of Choice
- Hilbert series and eventual Hilbert value of a two-form plane complete intersection
- A plane intersection with no common component is nonempty and zero-dimensional
- A zero-dimensional projective scheme has finitely many closed points with finite-dimensional local rings
- Total length of a zero-dimensional projective scheme
- The eventual Hilbert function of a zero-dimensional projective quotient equals its total length
- Localisation at a homogeneous element is graded, with graded kernels and dehomogenised degree-zero parts
- Projective scheme of a homogeneous quotient and its standard affine charts
- Nonnegatively graded rings and modules, homogeneous elements, and twists
- Prime and local-ring correspondence on standard projective charts
- Krull dimension of a nonzero ring
- In a nonzero commutative ring, every proper ideal is contained in a maximal ideal
- Every maximal ideal of a commutative ring is prime
- Prime ideals and maximal ideals in a commutative ring
- Coprime positive-degree plane forms form a regular sequence
- Regular Sequence On A Module
- The Hilbert function and formal Hilbert series of a graded module with finite-length pieces
- Universal property of localisation: maps that invert $S$ factor uniquely through $S^{-1}R$
- Multiplicative subsets and the localisation $S^{-1}R$ as equivalence classes of fractions
- Principal localisation $R_f=\{1,f,f^2,\ldots\}^{-1}R$
- The polynomial ring over a commutative ring as finitely supported coefficient sequences with convolution
- Monomials, coefficients, degree in each variable and total degree in $F[x_1,\dots,x_n]$
- homogeneous polynomial and homogeneous ideal
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Sources
- A. Gathmann, Algebraic Geometry class notes (2002), Lemma 6.1.4 and Theorem 6.2.1, pp. 93-96 (standard reference, not scraped)
- J. S. Milne, Algebraic Geometry v6.10, Theorem 6.37 and Remark 6.38, pp. 152-153 (standard reference, not scraped)