Zariski lemma
Proposition 1.
Let be commutative rings. If is noetherian, and T finitely generated
as an -algebra
and as an -module, then is finitely generated as an -algebra.
Lemma 1 (Zariski’s lemma).
Let be a field extension and be such that . Then the elements are algebraic over .
Proof.
The case is clear. Now suppose and not all are algebraic over .
Wlog we may assume are algebraically independent and each element is algebraic over . Hence is a finite algebraic extension
of and therefore is a finitely generated -module.
The above proposition applied to shows that is finitely generated as a -algebra, i.e .
Let , where .
Now are algebraically independent so that , which is a UFD (http://planetmath.org/UFD).
Let be a prime divisor of . Since is relatively prime to each of , the element cannot be in . We obtain a contradiction
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