Let A be a linearly topologized ring, separated and complete and { I λ } {\displaystyle \{I_{\lambda }\}} the fundamental system of open ideals. Then the ring of restricted power series is defined as the projective limit of the polynomial rings over A / I λ {\displaystyle A/I_{\lambda }} :
In other words, it is the completion of the polynomial ring A [ x 1 , … , x n ] {\displaystyle A[x_{1},\dots ,x_{n}]} with respect to the filtration { I λ [ x 1 , … , x n ] } {\displaystyle \{I_{\lambda }[x_{1},\dots ,x_{n}]\}} . Sometimes this ring of restricted power series is also denoted by A { x 1 , … , x n } {\displaystyle A\{x_{1},\dots ,x_{n}\}} .
Clearly, the ring A ⟨ x 1 , … , x n ⟩ {\displaystyle A\langle x_{1},\dots ,x_{n}\rangle } can be identified with the subring of the formal power series ring A [ [ x 1 , … , x n ] ] {\displaystyle A[[x_{1},\dots ,x_{n}]]} that consists of series ∑ c α x α {\displaystyle \sum c_{\alpha }x^{\alpha }} with coefficients c α → 0 {\displaystyle c_{\alpha }\to 0} ; i.e., each I λ {\displaystyle I_{\lambda }} contains all but finitely many coefficients c α {\displaystyle c_{\alpha }} . Also, the ring satisfies (and in fact is characterized by) the universal property:4 for (1) each continuous ring homomorphism A → B {\displaystyle A\to B} to a linearly topologized ring B {\displaystyle B} , separated and complete and (2) each elements b 1 , … , b n {\displaystyle b_{1},\dots ,b_{n}} in B {\displaystyle B} , there exists a unique continuous ring homomorphism
extending A → B {\displaystyle A\to B} .
In rigid analysis, when the base ring A is the valuation ring of a complete non-archimedean field ( K , | ⋅ | ) {\displaystyle (K,|\cdot |)} , the ring of restricted power series tensored with K {\displaystyle K} ,
is called a Tate algebra, named for John Tate.5 It is equivalently the subring of formal power series k [ [ ξ 1 , … , ξ n ] ] {\displaystyle k[[\xi _{1},\dots ,\xi _{n}]]} which consists of series convergent on o k ¯ n {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {o}}_{\overline {k}}^{n}} , where o k ¯ := { x ∈ k ¯ : | x | ≤ 1 } {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {o}}_{\overline {k}}:=\{x\in {\overline {k}}:|x|\leq 1\}} is the valuation ring in the algebraic closure k ¯ {\displaystyle {\overline {k}}} .
The maximal spectrum of T n {\displaystyle T_{n}} is then a rigid-analytic space that models an affine space in rigid geometry.
Define the Gauss norm of f = ∑ a α ξ α {\displaystyle f=\sum a_{\alpha }\xi ^{\alpha }} in T n {\displaystyle T_{n}} by
This makes T n {\displaystyle T_{n}} a Banach algebra over k; i.e., a normed algebra that is complete as a metric space. With this norm, any ideal I {\displaystyle I} of T n {\displaystyle T_{n}} is closed6 and thus, if I is radical, the quotient T n / I {\displaystyle T_{n}/I} is also a (reduced) Banach algebra called an affinoid algebra.
Some key results are:
As consequence of the division, preparation theorems and Noether normalization, T n {\displaystyle T_{n}} is a Noetherian unique factorization domain of Krull dimension n.11 An analog of Hilbert's Nullstellensatz is valid: the radical of an ideal is the intersection of all maximal ideals containing the ideal (we say the ring is Jacobson).12
Results for polynomial rings such as Hensel's lemma, division algorithms (or the theory of Gröbner bases) are also true for the ring of restricted power series. Throughout the section, let A denote a linearly topologized ring, separated and complete.
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