Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 2011
It is shown that the well-known characterizations of when a commutative ring R has Noetherian spectrum carry over to characterizations of when the set Spec(M) of prime submodules of a finitely generated module M is Noetherian. The symmetric algebra SR(M) of M is used to show that the Noetherian property of Spec(R), and some related properties, pass from the ring R to the finitely generated R-modules.