Distributive FCP extensions

arXiv2207.05572MaRDI QIDQ6404729FDOQ6404729

Authors: Gabriel Picavet, Martine Picavet-L'Hermitte 

Publication date: 12 July 2022

Abstract: We are dealing with extensions of commutative rings $RsubseteqS$ whose chains of the poset $[R,S]$ of their subextensions are finite ({em i.e.} $RsubseteqS$ has the FCP property) and such that $[R,S]$ is a distributive lattice, that we call distributive FCP extensions. Note that the lattice $[R,S]$ of a distributive FCP extension is finite. This paper is the continuation of our earlier papers where we studied catenarian and Boolean extensions. Actually, for an FCP extension, the following implications hold: Boolean $Rightarrow$ distributive $Rightarrow$ catenarian. A comprehensive characterization of distributive FCP extensions actually remains a challenge, essentially because the same problem for field extensions is not completely solved. Nevertheless, we are able to exhibit a lot of positive results for some classes of extensions. A main result is that an FCP extension $RsubseteqS$ is distributive if and only if $RsubseteqoverlineR$ is distributive, where $overlineR$ is the integral closure of $R$ in $S$. A special attention is paid to distributive field extensions.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Commutative algebra (13-XX)

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