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Regular rings and perfect(oid) algebras

Commutative Algebra 2018-09-11 v2

Abstract

We prove a pp-adic analog of Kunz's theorem: a pp-adically complete noetherian ring is regular exactly when it admits a faithfully flat map to a perfectoid ring. This result is deduced from a more precise statement on detecting finiteness of projective dimension of finitely generated modules over noetherian rings via maps to perfectoid rings. We also establish a version of the pp-adic Kunz's theorem where the flatness hypothesis is relaxed to almost flatness.

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@article{arxiv.1803.03229,
  title  = {Regular rings and perfect(oid) algebras},
  author = {Bhargav Bhatt and Srikanth B. Iyengar and Linquan Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.03229},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

18 pages, add a secton to explain the almost version of the results

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