Section 33.13 (045O): Change of fields and the Cohen-Macaulay property

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33.13 Change of fields and the Cohen-Macaulay property

The following lemma says that it does not make sense to define geometrically Cohen-Macaulay schemes, since these would be the same as Cohen-Macaulay schemes.

Lemma 33.13.1. Let $X$ be a locally Noetherian scheme over the field $k$ . Let $k'/k$ be a finitely generated field extension. Let $x \in X$ be a point, and let $x' \in X_{k'}$ be a point lying over $x$ . Then we have

$\mathcal{O}_{X, x}\text{ is Cohen-Macaulay} \Leftrightarrow \mathcal{O}_{X_{k'}, x'}\text{ is Cohen-Macaulay}$

If $X$ is locally of finite type over $k$ , the same holds for any field extension $k'/k$ .

Proof. The first case of the lemma follows from Algebra, Lemma 10.167.2. The second case of the lemma is equivalent to Algebra, Lemma 10.130.6. $\square$

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33.13 Change of fields and the Cohen-Macaulay property

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