English

An elementary and constructive proof of Grothendieck's generic freeness lemma

Commutative Algebra 2018-07-04 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We present a new and direct proof of Grothendieck's generic freeness lemma in its general form. Unlike the previously published proofs, it does not proceed in a series of reduction steps and is fully constructive, not using the axiom of choice or even the law of excluded middle. It was found by unwinding the result of a general topos-theoretic technique.

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@article{arxiv.1807.01231,
  title  = {An elementary and constructive proof of Grothendieck's generic freeness lemma},
  author = {Ingo Blechschmidt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.01231},
  year   = {2018}
}