Cantor-Bendixson Rank of the Ziegler Spectrum Over a Commutative Valuation Domain (Q4948522)

The Ziegler spectrum Zg\(_R\), of a ring \(R\) is a topological space whose points are the isomorphism classes of indecomposable pure-injective modules and whose topology is defined in model-theoretic terms [\textit{M. Ziegler}, ``Model theory of modules'', Ann. Pure Appl. Logic 26, 149-213 (1984; Zbl 0593.16019)] but which can also be defined in functorial terms or directly in terms of the category of modules [see e.g. \textit{M. Prest}, ``Topological and geometric aspects of the Ziegler spectrum'', in: H. Krause et al. (eds.), Infinite length modules (Bielefeld, 1998), Birkhäuser, Basel, Trends Math., 369-392 (2000)]. Let \(R\) be a commutative valuation domain. The author shows that the Cantor-Bendixson rank of Zg\(_R\) is \(2\alpha\) where \(\alpha\) is the Krull dimension of \(R\) (an ordinal or \(\infty=\) undefined). It is also shown that if the Jacobson radical of \(R\) is finitely generated then the set of isolated points is dense in Zg\(_R\). Otherwise there are no isolated points. In view of \textit{G. Puninskij}'s ``Superdecomposable pure injective modules over commutative valuation rings'' [Algebra Logika 31, 655-671 (1992; Zbl 0810.13008)] it follows that a commutative valuation domain \(R\) has Krull dimension if and only if the Cantor-Bendixson rank of Zg\(_R\) is defined if and only if there is no superdecomposable pure-injective \(R\)-module.