surjection modulo jacobson radical for a finitely generated module

Proposition

Let 20260623-surjection_modulo_jacobson_radical_for_a_finitely_generated_module_e982284383c26ea19802b3e68eabfe52a8cdc113.svg be a module-homomorphism between 20260623-surjection_modulo_jacobson_radical_for_a_finitely_generated_module_4e4369590b92c3620f19dcd8077d03ff4203fbe1.svg-modules, 20260623-surjection_modulo_jacobson_radical_for_a_finitely_generated_module_f3a4cb4fcd0586b8370e75d4a8d1789b465c419b.svg an ideal contained in the Jacobson radical.
Suppose that 20260623-surjection_modulo_jacobson_radical_for_a_finitely_generated_module_d5ff0e618ffed8405c9ae932895400551dd8126e.svg is finitely generated and that 20260623-surjection_modulo_jacobson_radical_for_a_finitely_generated_module_5e1536bd404cacad24a70bfbb51d6e577d304c4e.svg is surjective.

Then so is 20260623-surjection_modulo_jacobson_radical_for_a_finitely_generated_module_0e3bc12dd2447f3d9ac5d23913018d3da877a185.svg.

Proof

Recall that a module homomorphism is surjective if and only if the cokernel 20260623-surjection_modulo_jacobson_radical_for_a_finitely_generated_module_3f6634edfd6a96ac947c094d6e4d6c05ff67868d.svg vanishes.
Observe that 20260623-surjection_modulo_jacobson_radical_for_a_finitely_generated_module_3f6634edfd6a96ac947c094d6e4d6c05ff67868d.svg 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

20260623-surjection_modulo_jacobson_radical_for_a_finitely_generated_module_37152da8815380b47d67bbd50d73a11f7d4d131d.svg

Now 20260623-surjection_modulo_jacobson_radical_for_a_finitely_generated_module_e48764d49aff97bb99738ccafd7b23d0b17665f5.svg is right exact, hence we may identify 20260623-surjection_modulo_jacobson_radical_for_a_finitely_generated_module_1a3f4ebf345601678a9fa643078f76bdb05bf064.svg, where the latter vanishes as 20260623-surjection_modulo_jacobson_radical_for_a_finitely_generated_module_5e1536bd404cacad24a70bfbb51d6e577d304c4e.svg is surjective by assumpiton.

This shows that 20260623-surjection_modulo_jacobson_radical_for_a_finitely_generated_module_323533535ec8183bdd0525dbac66eaa26cb5cbf0.svg is surjective or equivalently 20260623-surjection_modulo_jacobson_radical_for_a_finitely_generated_module_79349cf33a05b3901fb7b2dac1ffb1f87cbbd427.svg.
Hence Nakayama Lemma for Jacobson Radical shows that 20260623-surjection_modulo_jacobson_radical_for_a_finitely_generated_module_965b2a69e80800852ce63d5496977eed6128fad0.svg as 20260623-surjection_modulo_jacobson_radical_for_a_finitely_generated_module_3f6634edfd6a96ac947c094d6e4d6c05ff67868d.svg is finitely generated as quotient 20260623-surjection_modulo_jacobson_radical_for_a_finitely_generated_module_d5ff0e618ffed8405c9ae932895400551dd8126e.svg.
This shows that 20260623-surjection_modulo_jacobson_radical_for_a_finitely_generated_module_0e3bc12dd2447f3d9ac5d23913018d3da877a185.svg is surjective.

Date: nil

Author: Anton Zakrewski

Created: 2026-06-24 Mi 17:57