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Atlas.AlgebraicGeometryI.code.FiniteMorphismDimension

For an integral extension B → A, the induced map on prime spectra is strictly monotone, so chains in Spec A descend to chains in Spec B.

An integral extension B → A satisfies dim A ≤ dim B, via strict monotonicity of Spec on chains.

theorem FiniteMorphismDimension.exists_lift_chain {B : Type u_1} {A : Type u_2} [CommRing B] [CommRing A] [Algebra B A] [Algebra.IsIntegral B A] (hinj : Function.Injective (algebraMap B A)) (n : ) (f : Fin (n + 1)PrimeSpectrum B) (hf : ∀ (i : Fin n), f i.castSucc < f i.succ) :
∃ (g : Fin (n + 1)PrimeSpectrum A), (∀ (i : Fin (n + 1)), PrimeSpectrum.comap (algebraMap B A) (g i) = f i) ∀ (i : Fin n), g i.castSucc < g i.succ

Going-up: an injective integral extension lifts any strict chain of primes in B to a strict chain in A with prescribed comap images.

Combined with going-up: an injective integral extension also satisfies dim B ≤ dim A, so an integral surjection preserves Krull dimension.

Lem 10, Lec 5: a finite injective morphism preserves Krull dimension, i.e. dim X = dim Y for a finite surjection X → Y.