Formalization in Lean of faithfully flat descent of projectivity
Commutative Algebra
2026-03-05 v1 Rings and Algebras
Abstract
We formalize in Lean the following foundational result in commutative algebra: Let be a faithfully flat map of (not necessarily noetherian) commutative rings, and let be an arbitrary -module. Then is projective over if and only if is projective over . This formalizes and verifies Perry's fix of a subtle gap in the classical work of Raynaud and Gruson, a result which is a key ingredient in the study of finitistic dimension of commutative noetherian rings.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2603.04376,
title = {Formalization in Lean of faithfully flat descent of projectivity},
author = {Liran Shaul},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.04376},
year = {2026}
}
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