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Atlas.AlgebraicGeometryI.code.RegularLocalRing

A local ring R is regular iff its Krull dimension equals its embedding dimension; the definitional unfolding of regularity.

For a Noetherian local ring, regularity is equivalent to the inequality embDim ≤ krullDim, combined with the general bound krullDim ≤ embDim.

Prop 30 (Lec, regularity): the Krull dimension of a Noetherian local ring is bounded above by its embedding dimension.

Symmetric reformulation: regular ⇔ embDim = krullDim.

The cotangent space m/m² of a Noetherian local ring is a finite-dimensional vector space over the residue field.

The cotangent space vanishes iff R is a field, i.e. dim_k m/m² = 0.

dim_k m/m² ≤ 1 iff the maximal ideal is principal (a discrete valuation ring or a field).

Smoothness at a prime is detected by smoothness on a Zariski-open neighborhood; if R → A is smooth at p, there exists f ∉ p with A_f smooth.

Characterization of the smooth locus: complement of the support of of the cotangent intersected with the free locus of Ω[A/R].

An R-algebra A is formally smooth iff its smooth locus is all of Spec A.

theorem field_isRegular (k : Type u) [Field k] (hk : IsField k) :

A field is a regular local ring (trivial case of regularity).

Every discrete valuation ring is a regular local ring of dimension one.

theorem polynomial_ring_dim (k : Type u) [Field k] (n : ) :

The Krull dimension of the polynomial ring k[X_1, …, X_n] over a field is n.

Prop 30 applied to localizations of a polynomial ring at a prime: Krull dimension is bounded by embedding dimension.