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Galois Theory of Essential Extensions of Modules
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
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The purpose of this paper is to exploit an analogy between algebraic extensions of fields and essential extensions of modules, in which the role of the algebraic closure of a field F is played by the injective hull H(M) of a unitary left R-module M. (The notion of * ‘algebraic’ extensions of general algebraic systems has been studied by Shoda; see, for example [5].)
In this analogy, the role of a polynomial p(x) is played by a homomorphism of R-modules
(1)
which will be called an ideal homomorphism into M. The process of solving the equation p(x) = 0 in F, or in an algebraic extension of F, will be replaced by the process of extending an ideal homomorphism (1) to a homomorphism F* from R into M, or into an essential extension of M.
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