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In commutative algebra, the Krull dimension of a commutative ring ''R'', named after Wolfgang Krull, is the supremum of the lengths of all chains of prime ideals. The Krull dimension need not be finite even for a Noetherian ring. More generally the Krull dimension can be defined for modules over possibly non-commutative rings as the deviation of the poset of submodules. The Krull dimension has been introduced to provide an algebraic definition of the dimension of an algebraic variety: the dimension of the affine variety defined by an ideal ''I'' in a polynomial ring ''R'' is the Krull dimension of ''R''/''I''. A field ''k'' has Krull dimension 0; more generally, ''k''(..., ''x''''n'' ) has Krull dimension ''n''. A principal ideal domain that is not a field has Krull dimension 1. A local ring has Krull dimension 0 if and only if every element of its maximal ideal is nilpotent. ==Explanation== We say that a chain of prime ideals of the form has length n. That is, the length is the number of strict inclusions, not the number of primes; these differ by 1. We define the Krull dimension of to be the supremum of the lengths of all chains of prime ideals in . Given a prime in ''R'', we define the height of , written , to be the supremum of the lengths of all chains of prime ideals contained in , meaning that .〔Matsumura, Hideyuki: "Commutative Ring Theory", page 30–31, 1989〕 In other words, the height of is the Krull dimension of the localization of ''R'' at . A prime ideal has height zero if and only if it is a minimal prime ideal. The Krull dimension of a ring is the supremum of the heights of all maximal ideals, or those of all prime ideals. In a Noetherian ring, every prime ideal has finite height. Nonetheless, Nagata gave an example of a Noetherian ring of infinite Krull dimension.〔Eisenbud, D. ''Commutative Algebra'' (1995). Springer, Berlin. Exercise 9.6.〕 A ring is called catenary if any inclusion of prime ideals can be extended to a maximal chain of prime ideals between and , and any two maximal chains between and have the same length. A ring is called universally catenary if any finitely generated algebra over it is catenary. Nagata gave an example of a Noetherian ring which is not catenary.〔Matsumura, H. ''Commutative Algebra'' (1970). Benjamin, New York. Example 14.E.〕 In a Noetherian ring, Krull's height theorem says that the height of an ideal generated by ''n'' elements is no greater than ''n''. More generally, the height of an ideal I is the infimum of the heights of all prime ideals containing I. In the language of algebraic geometry, this is the codimension of the subvariety of Spec() corresponding to I.〔Matsumura, Hideyuki: "Commutative Ring Theory", page 30–31, 1989〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Krull dimension」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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