A nonzero finitely generated Weyl algebra module over is holonomic when it attains the lower bound in the Bernstein inequality for Weyl algebra modules. The zero module is also conventionally called holonomic. Nonzero subquotients of a holonomic module remain holonomic. Additivity and integrality of the leading Hilbert-polynomial multiplicity then bound the number of nonzero factors in any submodule chain, giving finite composition length.
Every nonzero subquotient of a holonomic Weyl algebra module over a characteristic-zero field has dimension , by Bernstein inequality for Weyl algebra modules and dimension and multiplicity in a filtered exact sequence. Each strict step in a submodule chain consumes positive multiplicity of a filtered module. With a standard graded algebra normalization these multiplicities are integral. There are therefore at most strict steps. The module is Artinian and Noetherian, and its module length is bounded by that multiplicity.

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