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The localization of a commutative ring R by a multiplicatively closed set S is a new ring whose elements are fractions with numerators in R and denominators in S.. If the ring is an integral domain the construction generalizes and follows closely that of the field of fractions, and, in particular, that of the rational numbers as the field of fractions of the integers.
The ring of Laurent polynomials [,] is an extension of the polynomial ring [] obtained by "inverting ". More rigorously, it is the localization of the polynomial ring in the multiplicative set consisting of the non-negative powers of . Many properties of the Laurent polynomial ring follow from the general properties of localization.
In mathematics, the ring of polynomial functions on a vector space V over a field k gives a coordinate-free analog of a polynomial ring. It is denoted by k[V]. If V is finite dimensional and is viewed as an algebraic variety, then k[V] is precisely the coordinate ring of V. The explicit definition of the ring can be given as follows.
Such a ring is necessarily a reduced ring, [5] and this is sometimes included in the definition. In general, if A is a Noetherian ring whose localizations at maximal ideals are all domains, then A is a finite product of domains. [6] In particular if A is a Noetherian, normal ring, then the domains in the product are integrally closed domains. [7]
Local rings arise in geometry as the germs of functions at a point. Finitely generated modules over local rings arise quite often as germs of sections of vector bundles . Working at the level of germs rather than points, the notion of finite-dimensional vector bundle gives way to that of a coherent sheaf .
This ring can also be described as the coordinate ring of the cuspidal cubic curve y 2 = x 3 over K. The subring K[t 3, t 4, t 5] of the polynomial ring K[t], or its localization or completion at t=0, is a 1-dimensional domain which is Cohen–Macaulay but not Gorenstein. Rational singularities over a field of characteristic zero are Cohen ...
Given a linear operator T on a finite-dimensional vector space V, one can consider the vector space with operator as a module over the polynomial ring in one variable R = K[T], as in the structure theorem for finitely generated modules over a principal ideal domain. Then the spectrum of K[T] (as a ring) equals the spectrum of T (as an operator).
Just as the polynomial ring in n variables with coefficients in the commutative ring R is the free commutative R-algebra of rank n, the noncommutative polynomial ring in n variables with coefficients in the commutative ring R is the free associative, unital R-algebra on n generators, which is noncommutative when n > 1.