Available in electronic format
Available in print format
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
ISSN 1088-6826 (e) ISSN 0002-9939 (p)
     

Composition series of modules over Prüfer domains

Author(s): Bruce Olberding
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 127 (1999), 1917-1921.
MSC (1991): Primary 13F05, 13C05; Secondary 15A75, 20K15
Posted: February 17, 1999
Retrieve article in: PDF
This article is available free of charge

Abstract | References | Similar articles | Additional information

Abstract: A weakened version of the Jordan-Hölder theorem is shown to hold for torsion-free finite rank modules over an integral domain $R$ precisely when $R$ is a Prüfer domain.


References:

1.
R. A. Beaumont and R. S. Pierce, Torsion-free groups of rank two, Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 72 (1961). MR 24:A162

2.
N. Bourbaki, Elements of mathematics: Algebra I, Chapters 1 - 3, Springer-Verlag, 1989. MR 90d:00002

3.
L. Fuchs and L. Salce, Modules over valuation domains, Lecture notes in pure and applied mathematics 96, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1985. MR 86h:13008

4.
R. B. Gardner, Exterior algebras over commutative rings, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1972. MR 53:10839

5.
R. W. Gilmer, Multiplicative Ideal Theory, Queen's Papers in Pure and Applied Mathematics 90, Queen's University, 1992. MR 93j:13001

6.
A. Hattori, On Prüfer rings, J. Math. Soc. Japan 9 (1957), 381-385. MR 20:854b

7.
D. Lazard, Autour de la platitude, Bull. Soc. Math. France 97 (1969), 81-128. MR 40:7310

8.
O. Mutzbauer, Type graph, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes 1006, 228-252. MR 85d:20052

9.
O. Mutzbauer, Type invariants of torsion-free abelian groups, Contemporary Math. 87 (1989), 133-154. MR 90c:20069

10.
J. J. Rotman, The Grothendieck group of torsion-free abelian groups of finite rank, Proc. London Math. Soc. (3) 13 (1963), 724-732. MR 27:4857

11.
J. J. Rotman, An introduction to homological algebra, Academic Press, 1979.


Similar Articles:

Retrieve articles in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society with MSC (1991): 13F05, 13C05, 15A75, 20K15

Retrieve articles in all Journals with MSC (1991): 13F05, 13C05, 15A75, 20K15


Additional Information:

Bruce Olberding
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Northeast Louisiana University, Monroe, Louisiana 71209
Email: maolberding@alpha.nlu.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-99-04760-7
PII: S 0002-9939(99)04760-7
Keywords: Pr\"{u}fer domain, torsion-free module, exterior algebra
Received by editor(s): April 12, 1997
Received by editor(s) in revised form: September 24, 1997
Posted: February 17, 1999
Additional Notes: Some of these results appeared in the author's Ph.D. dissertation, which was written under the supervision of Professor J. D. Reid at Wesleyan University
Communicated by: Wolmer V. Vasconcelos
Copyright of article: Copyright 1999, American Mathematical Society


  AMS Website Logo Small Comments: webmaster@ams.org
© Copyright 2009, American Mathematical Society
Privacy Statement
Search the AMSPowered by Google