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Strengthen a lemma
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aisejohan committed Apr 13, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -22758,20 +22758,18 @@ \section{Completion for Noetherian rings}

\begin{lemma}
\label{lemma-completion-faithfully-flat}
Let $(R, \mathfrak m)$ be a Noetherian local ring.
Let $I \subset \mathfrak m$ be an ideal. Denote $R^\wedge$
the completion of $R$ with respect to $I$.
The ring map $R \to R^\wedge$ is faithfully flat.
In particular the completion with respect to $\mathfrak m$,
namely $\lim_n R/\mathfrak m^n$ is faithfully flat.
Let $I$ be an ideal of a Noetherian ring $R$. Denote $R^\wedge$
the completion of $R$ with respect to $I$. If $I$ is contained
in the Jacobson radical of $R$, then the ring map $R \to R^\wedge$
is faithfully flat. In particular, if $(R, \mathfrak m)$ is a Noetherian
local ring, then the completion $\lim_n R/\mathfrak m^n$ is faithfully flat.
\end{lemma}

\begin{proof}
By Lemma \ref{lemma-completion-flat} it is flat.
The composition $R \to R^\wedge \to R/\mathfrak m$ where
the last map is the projection map $R^\wedge \to R/I$
combined with $R/I \to R/\mathfrak m$ shows that
$\mathfrak m$ is in the image of $\Spec(R^\wedge)
The composition $R \to R^\wedge \to R/I$ where
the last map is the projection map $R^\wedge \to R/I$ shows that
any maximal ideal of $R$ is in the image of $\Spec(R^\wedge)
\to \Spec(R)$. Hence the map is faithfully
flat by Lemma \ref{lemma-ff}.
\end{proof}
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