18.0X Serre, Jean-Pierre Sur La Dimension Homologique Des Anneaux Et Des Modules Noeth´Eriens
BULLETIN (New Series) OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Volume 44, Number 3, July 2007, Pages 439–445 S 0273-0979(07)01169-X Article electronically published on May 11, 2007 SELECTED MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS related to the paper in the previous section by DAVID EISENBUD MR0086071 (19,119a) 18.0X Serre, Jean-Pierre Sur la dimension homologique des anneaux et des modules noeth´eriens. (French) Proceedings of the international symposium on algebraic number theory, Tokyo & Nikko, 1955, pp. 175–189. Science Council of Japan, Tokyo, 1956. The author gives an exposition of the results of M. Auslander and the reviewer [Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 42 (1956), 36–38; MR0075190 (17,705b)] and completes these results, notably by giving a homological characterization of regular local rings. All the rings A considered in the paper are commutative noetherian rings with identity element, and all A-modules E are assumed finitely generated and unitary. If A is a local ring with unique maximal ideal m,andE is an A-module, a sequence of elements a1, ··· ,aq in m is called an E-sequence if for each i =1, ··· ,q, ai is not a zero divisor for E/(a1, ··· ,ai−1)E. It is shown that every E-sequence can be extended to a maximal E-sequence, and if a1, ··· ,aq is an E-sequence, then dhA(E/(a1, ··· ,aq)E)=dhAE + q, where dhA(E) is the projective (or homological) dimension of E over A [H. Cartan and S. Eilenberg, Homological algebra, Princeton, 1956; MR0077480 (17,1040e); here dhAE is written dimA E].
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