Let and form the Rees algebra . It is generated over by , so the Hilbert basis theorem makes it Noetherian. The Rees module is finite over it, generated by finitely many generators of the module in degree zero. Hence its graded submodule
has finitely many homogeneous generators, all in degrees at most some .
For , each degree- generator contributes a multiple from . This is contained in , because multiplication by puts its coefficient both in and in . Thus . The reverse inclusion follows directly by multiplication: it stays in and in . Consequently
This is the Artin-Rees lemma, proved through finite graded generation rather than an assumption that the intersection filtration initially has that form.
The Artin-Rees lemma states that, for a Noetherian ring , an ideal , a finitely generated module , and a submodule , there is such that
Thus the filtration on induced from the I-adic filtration of is eventually determined by one of its terms.
For the proof, form the Rees ring and its Rees module:
Since is a Noetherian ring, write . Then , so it is a Noetherian ring by the Hilbert basis theorem. Generators of in degree zero generate as a module over , so this is a Noetherian module.
The graded submodule
is therefore finitely generated. Choose homogeneous generators with for some . For , taking degree- components gives
The same generators show that the final sum is exactly . This proves the Artin-Rees lemma. If , one may simply take .
Now let
It is a submodule of the Noetherian module , hence a finitely generated module. Apply the Artin-Rees lemma with and . Since is contained in every (including ), its conclusion reduces to
Write generators as . There is a matrix with entries in such that . Multiplication by the adjugate of shows that
The determinant is congruent to modulo , so it is for some . This determinant trick produces a single such element annihilating all of , and in particular annihilating each . If , use .
Conversely, if with , then . Iterating gives for every . Hence the exact description is
In a local ring with contained in the maximal ideal, every is a unit, so this also yields the usual vanishing form of the Krull intersection theorem.
For a failure without the Noetherian ring hypothesis, let and use the semigroup algebra
Its elements are finite sums of formal monomials , with multiplication . Each ring in the union is a polynomial ring and the inclusions are injective, so is an integral domain. It is not a Noetherian ring, since
Indeed the generator on the left is the square of the next generator, while division in the opposite direction would require a negative exponent, which is unavailable in .
Let be the ideal of elements with zero constant term, equivalently
It is proper because taking the constant term gives . Every generator is , with , so . Thus this is a nonzero idempotent ideal, with for every . Take
For every , the constant term of is , so . Since is an integral domain and , we have . This gives all three requested objects and proves that no element of the required form annihilates .