X-Nico

unusual facts about local ring



Hensel's lemma

Completeness of a ring is not a necessary condition for the ring to have the Henselian property: Goro Azumaya in 1950 defined a commutative local ring satisfying the Henselian property for the maximal ideal m to be a Henselian ring.


see also

Hensel's lemma

Masayoshi Nagata proved in the 1950s that for any commutative local ring A with maximal ideal m there always exists a smallest ring Ah containing A such that Ah is Henselian with respect to mAh.

UFC 29

A local ring announcer was used instead of the usual Bruce Buffer.