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Fitting Ideals of Projective Limits of Modules over Non-Noetherian Iwasawa Algebras

Commutative Algebra 2026-05-22 v3 Number Theory

Abstract

In \cite{grku1}, Greither and Kurihara proved a theorem about the commutativity of projective limits and Fitting ideals for modules over the classical equivariant Iwasawa algebra ΛG=Zp[G][[T]]\Lambda_G=\mathbb{Z}_p[G][[T]], where GG is a finite, abelian group and Zp\Bbb Z_p is the ring of pp--adic integers, for some prime pp. In this paper, we generalize their result first to the Noetherian Iwasawa algebras O[[T1,T2,,Tn]]\mathcal O[[T_1, T_2, \dots, T_n]] and, most importantly, to non-Noetherian algebras O[[T1,T2,,Tn,]]\mathcal O[[T_1, T_2, \dots, T_n, \dots]] of countably many generators, with more general rings of coefficients O\mathcal O. The latter generalization is motivated by the recent work of Bley--Popescu on the Geometric Equivariant Iwasawa Conjecture for function fields, as well as by the emerging Iwasawa theory of Taelman class--modules associated to Drinfeld modules, where the Iwasawa algebras are not Noetherian, of the type described above. A sample application of our results to non--Noetherian geometric Iwasawa theory is given in Appendix B. Further number theoretic applications will be given in an upcoming paper.

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@article{arxiv.2409.11562,
  title  = {Fitting Ideals of Projective Limits of Modules over Non-Noetherian Iwasawa Algebras},
  author = {Cristian D. Popescu and Wei Yin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.11562},
  year   = {2026}
}

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