Purity, Spectra and Localisation

by Mike Prest

It is possible to associate a topological space to the category of modules over any ring. This space, the Ziegler spectrum, is based on the indecomposable pure-injective modules. Although the Ziegler spectrum arose within the model theory of modules and plays a central role in that subject, this book concentrates specifically on its algebraic aspects and uses. The central aim is to understand modules and the categories they form through associated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521873088
• ISBN13: 9780521873086
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 798 Pages
• Weight: 2.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"