Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
In this paper we explore the extent to which embedding and isomorphism questions about a Noether lattice ℒ can be reduced to questions about simpler structures associated with ℒ.
In § 1, we use a variation of Dilworth's congruence approach [2] to associate a collection of semi-local Noether lattices with a given Noether lattice ℒ. We show that these semi-localizations determine ℒ to within isomorphism (Corollary 1.5); thus embedding and isomorphism questions about ℒ are largely reduced to the semi-local case.
In § 2, we consider the influence on a semi-local Noether lattice ℒ of the substructure ∂ ℒ consisting of all elements, all of whose associated primes are maximal. Here we find that if ∂ ℒ can be embedded in a semi-local Noether lattice ℒ*, then ℒ can be embedded in an extension of ℒ*.