Some characterizations of smoothness
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Some characterizations of smoothness
zbMATH Open document ID: 0546.13003
author: Hiroshi Tanimoto
published in: Journal of Mathematics of Kyoto University
publication date: 1983-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: In what follows, the word ''smooth'' is used in the sense of the book of the reviewer, ''Commutative algebra'' (1970; Zbl 0211.065 and 2nd edition 1980; Zbl 0441.13001) \([=formally\) smooth with respect to the discrete topology in the sense of EGA]. The author considers three problems: (A) When is a formal power series ring \(AX=AX_ 1,...,X_ n\) over a noetherian ring A smooth over A? (B) When is AX/\({\mathfrak a}\) smooth over A? (C) When is (A,I){\^{\ }} smooth over A? - He answers (A) in the case when A contains a field k as follows: AX is smooth over k if and only if \(char(k)=p>0\) and A is a finite module over \(A^ p\). [Later the author succeeded in giving a satisfactory answer also in the general case: cf. Nagoya Math. J. 95, 163-179 (1984; see the preceding review).] As for (B), under some conditions on the residue fields of the maximal ideals of A he proves that if \(B=AX/{\mathfrak a}\) is smooth over A then B is isomorphic to a completion (A,I){\^{\ }}. For (C) he gives some necessary and sufficient conditions.
reviewed by: H.Matsumura
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 13B02
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 13F25
zbMATH DE Number: 3869478
zbMATH Keywords: smooth ring
zbMATH Keywords: formal smoothness
zbMATH Keywords: formal power series ring
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1215/kjm/1250521430
OpenAlex ID: W1601596128
DOI: 10.1215/KJM/1250521430
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