surjection modulo jacobson radical for a finitely generated module
Proposition
Let be a module-homomorphism between
-modules,
an ideal contained in the Jacobson radical.
Suppose that is finitely generated and that
is surjective.
Then so is .
Proof
Recall that a module homomorphism is surjective if and only if the cokernel vanishes.
Observe that is also finitely generated, as it is the quotient of a finitely generated module.
Using the counit of the tensor hom adjunction gives a commutative diagram
Now is right exact, hence we may identify
, where the latter vanishes as
is surjective by assumpiton.
This shows that is surjective or equivalently
.
Hence Nakayama Lemma for Jacobson Radical shows that as
is finitely generated as quotient
.
This shows that is surjective.