Tower of field extensions #
In this file we prove the tower law for arbitrary extensions and finite extensions.
Suppose L
is a field extension of K
and K
is a field extension of F
.
Then [L:F] = [L:K] [K:F]
where [E₁:E₂]
means the E₂
-dimension of E₁
.
In fact we generalize it to rings and modules, where L
is not necessarily a field,
but just a free module over K
.
Implementation notes #
We prove two versions, since there are two notions of dimensions: Module.rank
which gives
the dimension of an arbitrary vector space as a cardinal, and FiniteDimensional.finrank
which
gives the dimension of a finite-dimensional vector space as a natural number.
Tags #
tower law
In a tower of field extensions A / K / F
, if A / F
is finite, so is K / F
.
(In fact, it suffices that A
is a nontrivial ring.)
Note this cannot be an instance as Lean cannot infer A
.
Alias of FiniteDimensional.finrank_linearMap_self
.