Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-rings-and-modules-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2023/2/b/iv/solution

For every , truncate before coordinate :
This lies in . For , . For , , which is divisible by . In particular the integer sequence
belongs to and satisfies .
Apply the module homomorphism . Since ,
Fixing any coordinate , the integer is therefore divisible by for every . The only such integer is zero: if , choose with , which rules out for any nonzero integer . Thus every coordinate of vanishes, contradicting part (b)(iii).
It follows that
The decisive property is vanishing of infinitely divisible integer sequences, namely .

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