On the Regularity of Graded k-Algebras of Krull Dimension ...1.
We describe an ultrametric version of the Stone-Weierstrass theorem, without any assumption on the residue field. If is a subset of a rank-one valuation domain , we show that the ring of polynomial functions is dense in the ring of continuous functions from to if and only if the topological closure of in the completion of is compact. We then show how to expand continuous functions in sums of polynomials.
We study the set of monomial ideals in a polynomial ring as an ordered set, with the ordering given by reverse inclusion. We give a short proof of the fact that every antichain of monomial ideals is finite. Then we investigate ordinal invariants for the complexity of this ordered set. In particular, we give an interpretation of the height function in terms of the Hilbert-Samuel polynomial, and we compute bounds on the maximal order type.