Talk:Nakayama lemma

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Matsumura (Commutative Ring Theory, Cambridge, 1996) mentions that Nakayama believed that this lemma be attributed to Azumaya and Krull; Matsumura uses NAK to denote this lemma. I think this should be mentioned. Kummini 20:59, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Does a proof of the remark on coherent sheaves require NAK to prove? Take the case of an affine scheme X = SpecR for some commutative ring R, F = \tilde{M} for some finitely generated R-module M and x corresponds to a prime ideal \mathfrak p \in  \mathrm{Spec} R. Then the remark can be translated into the following: M_\mathfrak p = 0 if and only if there exists an ideal I \not \subseteq \mathfrak p such that \forall \mathfrak q \not \supseteq I, M_\mathfrak q = 0. One direction is clear. Conversely, if M_\mathfrak p = 0, then there exists f \not \in \mathfrak p, fM = 0 (since M is finitely generated). Now set I = (f). Where did we use NAK? Kummini 21:22, 13 October 2006 (UTC)