Finitely generated torsion-free module over a principal ideal domain
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Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-05
Every finitely generated torsion-free module over a principal ideal domain is free. In the structure theorem, torsion-freeness removes every cyclic torsion summand and leaves only the free summand.
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