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Gsm073-Endmatter.Pdf http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/gsm/073 Graduat e Algebra : Commutativ e Vie w This page intentionally left blank Graduat e Algebra : Commutativ e View Louis Halle Rowen Graduate Studies in Mathematics Volum e 73 KHSS^ K l|y|^| America n Mathematica l Societ y iSyiiU ^ Providence , Rhod e Islan d Contents Introduction xi List of symbols xv Chapter 0. Introduction and Prerequisites 1 Groups 2 Rings 6 Polynomials 9 Structure theories 12 Vector spaces and linear algebra 13 Bilinear forms and inner products 15 Appendix 0A: Quadratic Forms 18 Appendix OB: Ordered Monoids 23 Exercises - Chapter 0 25 Appendix 0A 28 Appendix OB 31 Part I. Modules Chapter 1. Introduction to Modules and their Structure Theory 35 Maps of modules 38 The lattice of submodules of a module 42 Appendix 1A: Categories 44 VI Contents Chapter 2. Finitely Generated Modules 51 Cyclic modules 51 Generating sets 52 Direct sums of two modules 53 The direct sum of any set of modules 54 Bases and free modules 56 Matrices over commutative rings 58 Torsion 61 The structure of finitely generated modules over a PID 62 The theory of a single linear transformation 71 Application to Abelian groups 77 Appendix 2A: Arithmetic Lattices 77 Chapter 3. Simple Modules and Composition Series 81 Simple modules 81 Composition series 82 A group-theoretic version of composition series 87 Exercises — Part I 89 Chapter 1 89 Appendix 1A 90 Chapter 2 94 Chapter 3 96 Part II. AfRne Algebras and Noetherian Rings Introduction to Part II 99 Chapter 4. Galois Theory of Fields 101 Field extensions 102 Adjoining roots of a polynomial 108 Separable polynomials and separable elements 114 The Galois group 117 Galois extensions 119 Application: Finite fields 126 The Galois closure and intermediate subfields 129 Chains of subfields 130 Contents vn Application: Algebraically closed fields and the algebraic closure 133 Constructibility of numbers 135 Solvability of polynomials by radicals 136 Supplement: Trace and norm 141 Appendix 4A: Generic Methods in Field Theory: Transcendental Extensions 146 Transcendental field extensions 146 Appendix 4B: Computational Methods 150 The resultant of two polynomials 151 Appendix 4C: Formally Real Fields 155 Chapter 5. Algebras and Affine Fields 157 Affine algebras 161 The structure of affine fields - Main Theorem A 161 Integral extensions 165 Chapter 6. Transcendence Degree and the Krull Dimension of a Ring 171 Abstract dependence 172 Noether normalization 178 Digression: Cancellation 180 Maximal ideals of polynomial rings 180 Prime ideals and Krull dimension 181 Lifting prime ideals to related rings 184 Main Theorem B 188 Supplement: Integral closure and normal domains 189 Appendix 6A: The automorphisms of F[Ai,..., An] 194 Appendix 6B: Derivations of algebras 197 Chapter 7. Modules and Rings Satisfying Chain Conditions 207 Noetherian and Artinian modules (ACC and DCC) 207 Noetherian rings and Artinian rings 210 Supplement: Automorphisms, invariants, and Hilbert's fourteenth problem 214 Supplement: Graded and filtered algebras 217 Appendix 7A: Grobner bases 220 Vlll Contents Chapter 8. Localization and the Prime Spectrum 225 Localization 225 Localizing the prime spectrum 230 Localization to local rings 232 Localization to semilocal rings 235 Chapter 9. The Krull Dimension Theory of Commutative Noetherian Rings 237 Prime ideals of Artinian and Noetherian rings 238 The Principal Ideal Theorem and its generalization 240 Supplement: Catenarity of affine algebras 242 Reduced rings and radical ideals 243 Exercises - Part II 247 Chapter 4 247 Appendix 4A 257 Appendix 4B 258 Appendix 4C 262 Chapter 5 264 Chapter 6 264 Appendix 6B 268 Chapter 7 274 Appendix 7A 276 Chapter 8 277 Chapter 9 280 Part III. Applications to Geometry and Number Theory Introduction to Part III 287 Chapter 10. The Algebraic Foundations of Geometry 289 Affine algebraic sets 290 Hilbert's Nullstellensatz 293 Affine varieties 294 Affine "schemes" 298 Projective varieties and graded algebras 303 Varieties and their coordinate algebras 308 Appendix 10A. Singular points and tangents 309 Contents IX Chapter 11. Applications to Algebraic Geometry over the Rationals- Diophantine Equations and Elliptic Curves 313 Curves 315 Cubic curves 318 Elliptic curves 322 Reduction modulo p 337 Chapter 12. Absolute Values and Valuation Rings 339 Absolute values 340 Valuations 346 Completions 351 Extensions of absolute values 356 Supplement: Valuation rings and the integral closure 361 The ramification index and residue field 363 Local fields 369 Appendix 12A: Dedekind Domains and Class Field Theory 371 The ring-theoretic structure of Dedekind domains 371 The class group and class number 378 Exercises - Part III 387 Chapter 10 387 Appendix 10A 390 Chapter 11 391 Chapter 12 397 Appendix 12 A 404 List of major results 413 Bibliography 427 Index 431 This page intentionally left blank Introduction This book and its companion, [Row2] (henceforth, referred to as "Volume 2"), grew out of a year-long graduate course in algebra, whose goal was to provide algebraic tools to students from all walks of mathe• matics. These particular students had already seen modules and Galois theory, so in the first semester we focused on affine algebras and their role in algebraic geometry (Chapters 5 through 10 of this book), and the second semester treated those aspects of noncommutative algebra pertaining to the representation theory of finite groups (Chapters 19 and 20 of Volume 2). The underlying philosophy motivating the lectures was to keep the material as much to the point as possible. As the course material developed over many years, I started putting it into book form, but also rounding it out with some major developments in algebra in the twentieth century. There already are several excellent works in the literature, including the books by N. Jacobson, S. Lang, and P.M. Cohn, but developments of the last thirty years warrant another look at the subject. For example, Zelmanov's solution of the restricted Burnside problem, affine Lie algebras, and the blossoming of quantum group theory all took place after these books were written, not to mention Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. During this time, research in algebra has been so active that there is no hope of encompassing all of the advances in one or two volumes, as evidenced by Hazewinkel's ongoing project, Handbook of Algebra. Nevertheless, several major themes recur, including the interplay of algebra and geometry, and the study of algebraic structures through their representations into matrices, thereby bringing techniques of linear algebra into play. The goal in these two volumes is to bring some harmony to these themes. XI Xll Introduction Since a thorough account of the interesting advances in algebra over the last 50 years would require a work of epic proportions, selections were made at every step. The task was further complicated when some respected col• leagues and friends pointed out that any text suitable for graduate students in the United States must contain a treatment of modules over a principal domain as well as the basics of Galois theory, which, together with their exercises, account for some 100 pages. So the project grew to two volumes. Nevertheless, the two volumes were planned and written together, and many results were included in the first volume for use in the second. Accordingly, a unified introduction seems justified. The first volume features (commutative) affine algebras, and aims quickly for the fundamental theorems from commutative algebra needed for affine algebraic geometry. This means a thorough treatment of transcendence de• gree and its relation to the lengths of chains of prime ideals in an affine algebra, and some theory of Noetherian rings. In the process, we take the time to develop enough module theory to present basic tools from linear algebra (e.g., rational form, Jordan form, Jordan decomposition) and also enough field theory for the applications later on in the two volumes. For example, Chapter 4 contains a thorough account of the norm and trace in a field extension; its appendices include transcendental field extensions, Luroth's theorem, and the discriminant and resultant. Other appendices along the way include Makar-Limanov's application of derivations to basic questions of affine geometry, and Grobner bases (related to computational algebra). The later chapters involve applications used in arithmetic and al• gebraic curves and surfaces, culminating in the algebraic aspects of elliptic curves and the underlying number theory. The second volume focuses on structures arising from matrices. The twentieth century saw the sprouting of algebraic structures — groups and Lie algebras are used throughout mathematics, and are unified in Hopf algebras — and these are treated, mostly in the context of representation theory. On the other hand, some of the most beautiful results in algebra in the last 50 years have involved interrelations among different structures, such as Gabriel's classification of indecomposable modules of finite representation type in terms of Dynkin diagrams from graph theory and Lie algebra, and Zelmanov's solution of the restricted Burnside problem from group theory by means of Lie algebras and Jordan algebras. The reader is offered a sample of these various theories as well. To keep within the allotted space and to permit the book to serve its original purpose as a general text, the following decisions were made: 1. The organization is at four levels — main text, supplements, appen• dices, and exercises. An effort is made to keep this hierarchy consistent, Introduction xin in the sense that theorems from the main text do not rely on results from the supplements or appendices; the appendices do not rely on results in the exercises, and so forth. As a result, almost every chapter branches out with at least one appendix related to its material. (The exception to this rule is Chapter 25 in [Row2], which requires the categorical framework supplied in Appendix 1A.) The exercises often are extensions of the text, containing material which I did not have the heart to exclude altogether, often with very extensive hints amounting to almost complete proofs.
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