The Stacks project

Lemma 47.6.2. Let $(R, \mathfrak m, \kappa )$ be an artinian local ring. Let $E$ be an injective hull of $\kappa $. For any finite $R$-module $M$ the evaluation map

\[ M \longrightarrow \mathop{\mathrm{Hom}}\nolimits _ R(\mathop{\mathrm{Hom}}\nolimits _ R(M, E), E) \]

is an isomorphism. In particular $R = \mathop{\mathrm{Hom}}\nolimits _ R(E, E)$.

Proof. Observe that the displayed arrow is injective. Namely, if $x \in M$ is a nonzero element, then there is a nonzero map $Rx \to \kappa $ which we can extend to a map $\varphi : M \to E$ that doesn't vanish on $x$. Since the source and target of the arrow have the same length by Lemma 47.6.1 we conclude it is an isomorphism. The final statement follows on taking $M = R$. $\square$


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