On commutative FGI-Rings.
We give a short proof of the Jacobian criterion of formal smoothness using the Lichtenbaum-Schlessinger cotangent complex.
Commutative rings over which no endomorphism algebra has an outer automorphism are studied.
An -module has an almost trivial dual if there are no epimorphisms from to the free -module of countable infinite rank . For every natural number , we construct arbitrarily large separable -free -modules with almost trivial dual by means of Shelah’s Easy Black Box, which is a combinatorial principle provable in ZFC.