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Over a splitting field for finite group representations of characteristic $2$, put $a=(123)$. The block of a group algebra idempotents of $k{S}_3$ are $b_0=1+a+a^2$ and $b_1=a+a^2$. Their block algebras are $b_{0}k{S}_3\cong k{C}_2$ and $b_{1}k{S}_3\cong M_2(k)$, with a defect group of a block given by $C_2$ and $1$, respectively. The first is a local ring; for the second, the representation $a\mapsto \mathrm{diag}(\omega ,{\omega }^2)$, $(12)\mapsto \left(\begin{array}{cc}0& 1\\ 1& 0\end{array}\right)$ generates the full matrix algebra. The Cartan matrix of a group algebra is $\mathrm{diag}(2,1)$, and the ordinary trivial, sign, and two-dimensional characters give decomposition matrix $\left(\begin{array}{cc}1& 0\\ 1& 0\\ 0& 1\end{array}\right)$.

At a closed point of a variety over an algebraically closed field, the cotangent space is ${\mathfrak{m}}_P/{\mathfrak{m}}_P^2$. The universal property of Kähler differentials identifies its dual vector space with $k$-derivations of the local ring into the residue field, hence with the Zariski tangent space. The Kähler differential sheaf has the same fibre because a derivation kills constants and products of two elements of the maximal ideal.

Let $k$ be an algebraically closed field and let a block of a group algebra $B$ have a central defect group of a block $D$. Its quotient by $J(kD)B$ is a defect-zero block, hence a full matrix algebra over $k$. The algebra $B$ is free over the central local ring $kD$. Lift a primitive idempotent from this matrix quotient; its corner is free of rank one over $kD$, and is therefore $kD$. Lifting matrix units gives $B\cong {\mathrm{Mat}}_r(kD)$.

Use the signature of unital commutative rings, its equational axioms, and the coherent sequents $0=1⊢\perp$ and $\top {⊢}_x\mathrm{Inv}(x)\vee \mathrm{Inv}(1-x)$, where $\mathrm{Inv}(x)$ abbreviates $\exists y(xy=1)$. In a set-based model the nonunits form its unique maximal ideal; this is the usual nonzero local ring. In a topos the disjunction expresses local existence of a unit witness. Its classifying topos is defined by the Zariski coverage on finitely presented rings.

For an ideal $I\subseteq R$, its conormal module is $I/I^2$, naturally an $R/I$-module. It records generators and relations to first order along the quotient $R/I$. If $I$ is the maximal ideal of a local ring, it is the cotangent space of a local ring over the residue field. For the augmentation ideal $(X_1-1,\dots ,X_r-1)$ of $A[X_1^{\pm 1},\dots ,X_r^{\pm 1}]$, reduction modulo $I^2$ gives $I/I^2\cong A^r$, with basis the classes of $X_i-1$.

For a local ring $(A,\mathfrak{m})$ with residue field $k$, put $B=A[[x]]$ and $I=\mathfrak{m}B+xB$. There is a natural $k$-vector space isomorphism $I/I^2\cong (\mathfrak{m}/{\mathfrak{m}}^2)\oplus k$. The inverse sends $(\bar{a},\bar{b})$ to the class of $a+bx$. It is well-defined because changing $a$ by ${\mathfrak{m}}^2$ or $b$ by $\mathfrak{m}$ changes the result by $I^2$. It is surjective since every $f\in I$ is congruent modulo $x^{2}B\subseteq I^2$ to its constant and linear terms. As $I^2={\mathfrak{m}}^{2}B+x\mathfrak{m}B+x^{2}B$, those coefficients of an element of $I^2$ lie in ${\mathfrak{m}}^2$ and $\mathfrak{m}$, respectively. This proves injectivity. Thus adjoining one formal variable increases finite embedding dimension by one.

For a local ring $(R,\mathfrak{m})$ with residue field $\kappa =R/\mathfrak{m}$, its cotangent space is the $\kappa$-vector space $\mathfrak{m}/{\mathfrak{m}}^2$. In a Noetherian local ring, its dimension is the minimal number of generators of $\mathfrak{m}$, by the Nakayama lemma. Equality of this dimension with the Krull dimension defines a regular local ring.

For a normal variety with affine coordinate ring $A$ and a Weil divisor $D$, the fractional ideal of functions whose principal Weil divisor is at least $D$ isFor an effective prime divisor this is its height-one prime ideal. If the divisor is Cartier locally, this ideal is locally principal. A nonprincipal height-one prime ideal in a normal local ring can therefore detect a non-Cartier divisor.

A nonempty flat closed immersion of finite presentation into a connected scheme is an isomorphism. On a chart it is $A\to A/I$ with $I$ finitely generated. At a prime containing $I$, the quotient is a finite flat module over the local ring, hence free of rank one, so $I$ vanishes there. Finite generation extends this vanishing to a neighbourhood. Thus the image is open as well as closed; connectedness makes it all of the target, and the ideal is everywhere zero. Without finite presentation the conclusion can fail.

If $(A,\mathfrak{m})$ is a local ring, then $B=A[[x]]$ is local with maximal ideal $I=\mathfrak{m}B+xB$ and residue field $A/\mathfrak{m}$. A series $f=\sum a_n{x}^n$ is a unit if and only if $a_0$ is a unit. Necessity follows by taking constant coefficients of an inverse; sufficiency follows from the recursion $b_0=a_0^{-1}$ and $b_n=-a_0^{-1}{\sum }_{i=1}^n{a}_i{b}_{n-i}$ for its inverse. Thus the nonunits are precisely series with $a_0\in \mathfrak{m}$, which is exactly $I$, since $f=a_0+xg$. The constant-coefficient map followed by reduction modulo $\mathfrak{m}$ has kernel $I$ and image $A/\mathfrak{m}$.

In the sheaf topos for the Zariski coverage on finitely presented rings, the universal local ring is represented by the polynomial ring $\mathbb{Z}[t]$. At the stage of a finitely presented ring $A$, its section set is $A$, and restriction along $A\to B$ is that ring map. It is internally local because the localizations at $x$ and $1-x$ cover each stage. Its square-zero infinitesimals are represented by $\mathbb{Z}[\epsilon ]/({\epsilon }^2)$. Stage rings need not themselves be local or reduced; their variation supplies the internal local and infinitesimal semantics.

A generic point is a point whose closure is the whole space. An integral scheme has a unique generic point; on an affine scheme associated to an integral domain, it corresponds to the zero prime ideal. Its local ring is the fraction field of the domain. On every nonempty affine chart of an integral scheme these fields identify with the same function field.

A line bundle is globally generated if at each point some global section has a germ generating its stalk as a module over the local ring. Equivalently its evaluation map from global sections tensored with the structure sheaf is surjective.

If $G$ is a finite $p$-group and $k$ has characteristic $p$, then the augmentation ideal is the Jacobson radical of $kG$ and $kG/J(kG)\cong k$. Thus $kG$ is a local ring, has only the trivial simple module, and its regular module is indecomposable.

For a plane curve defined by a homogeneous polynomial $F$ of degree $d\ge 2$, assume the field characteristic is different from two and $d-1$ is nonzero in the field. A smooth point of a variety is a flex exactly when the determinant of the homogeneous Hessian matrix vanishes there, provided its tangent line is not a component. Put the point at $[0:0:1]$ with tangent $y=0$ and $F_y(p)\ne 0$. The homogeneous identities give $F_{xz}(p)=F_{zz}(p)=0$ and $F_{yz}(p)=(d-1)F_y(p)$, so the determinant is $-(d-1{)}^2{F}_y(p{)}^2{F}_{xx}(p)$. In the completed local ring, write the curve as a formal power series $y=h(x)$. Its linear coefficient is zero and its quadratic coefficient is $-F_{xx}(p)/(2F_y(p))$. Vanishing of that coefficient is exactly intersection multiplicity at least three with the tangent, proving the criterion in these positive characteristics as well as in characteristic zero.

A global idempotent on a scheme is zero or one in every local ring. Its one-locus is both open and closed. Conversely a clopen subset determines a global idempotent by gluing one on it and zero on its complement. Under this correspondence, decompositions into nonzero orthogonal idempotents correspond to disjoint clopen decompositions. When all connected components are open, the primitive idempotents correspond exactly to those components. Without orthogonality the assertion fails in characteristic two: $(1,0)=(1,1)+(0,1)$ in ${\mathbb{F}}_2\times {\mathbb{F}}_2$.

A local defining function for a complex analytic hypersurface $Y$ near $x$ is a holomorphic function $f$ on a neighbourhood $U$ such that $Y\cap U=\{f=0\}$. It may be chosen reduced, with each local irreducible factor occurring once. The local ring ${\mathcal{O}}_{X,x}$ of a complex manifold is a regular local ring and hence a unique factorization domain; each height-one prime of the hypersurface germ is principal, and the product of generators for its finitely many local branches gives $f$.

A homomorphism $\phi :(A,\mathfrak{m})\to (B,\mathfrak{n})$ of local rings is local if $\phi (\mathfrak{m})\subseteq \mathfrak{n}$, equivalently ${\phi }^{-1}(\mathfrak{n})=\mathfrak{m}$. The equivalence uses the fact that all elements outside $\mathfrak{m}$ are units. It induces an embedding of residue fields $A/\mathfrak{m}\to B/\mathfrak{n}$.

A local ring that is also an integral domain. Multiplication by any nonzero element is injective. This permits cancellation in Artin-Rees lemma length-growth arguments.

A locally ringed space is a ringed space whose stalk ${\mathcal{O}}_{X,x}$ is a local ring at every point. Morphisms of locally ringed spaces induce local homomorphisms on stalks.