/- Copyright (c) 2020 Johan Commelin. All rights reserved. Released under Apache 2.0 license as described in the file LICENSE. Authors: Johan Commelin -/ import ring_theory.noetherian /-! # Flat modules A module `M` over a commutative ring `R` is *flat* if for all finitely generated ideals `I` of `R`, the canonical map `I ⊗ M →ₗ M` is injective. This is equivalent to the claim that for all injective `R`-linear maps `f : M₁ → M₂` the induced map `M₁ ⊗ M → M₂ ⊗ M` is injective. See . This result is not yet formalised. ## Main declaration * `module.flat`: the predicate asserting that an `R`-module `M` is flat. ## TODO * Show that tensoring with a flat module preserves injective morphisms. Show that this is equivalent to be flat. See . To do this, it is probably a good idea to think about a suitable categorical induction principle that should be applied to the category of `R`-modules, and that will take care of the administrative side of the proof. * Define flat `R`-algebras * Define flat ring homomorphisms - Show that the identity is flat - Show that composition of flat morphisms is flat * Show that flatness is stable under base change (aka extension of scalars) For base change, it will be very useful to have a "characteristic predicate" instead of relying on the construction `A ⊗ B`. Indeed, such a predicate should allow us to treat both `polynomial A` and `A ⊗ polynomial R` as the base change of `polynomial R` to `A`. (Similar examples exist with `fin n → R`, `R × R`, `ℤ[i] ⊗ ℝ`, etc...) * Generalize flatness to noncommutative rings. -/ universes u v namespace module open function (injective) open linear_map (lsmul) open_locale tensor_product /-- An `R`-module `M` is flat if for all finitely generated ideals `I` of `R`, the canonical map `I ⊗ M →ₗ M` is injective. -/ class flat (R : Type u) (M : Type v) [comm_ring R] [add_comm_group M] [module R M] : Prop := (out : ∀ ⦃I : ideal R⦄ (hI : I.fg), injective (tensor_product.lift ((lsmul R M).comp I.subtype))) namespace flat open tensor_product linear_map _root_.submodule instance self (R : Type u) [comm_ring R] : flat R R := ⟨begin intros I hI, rw ← equiv.injective_comp (tensor_product.rid R I).symm.to_equiv, convert subtype.coe_injective using 1, ext x, simp only [function.comp_app, linear_equiv.coe_to_equiv, rid_symm_apply, comp_apply, mul_one, lift.tmul, subtype_apply, algebra.id.smul_eq_mul, lsmul_apply] end⟩ end flat end module