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Lemma 10.12.14. Let R be a ring. Let M and N be R-modules.

  1. If N and M are finite, then so is M \otimes _ R N.

  2. If N and M are finitely presented, then so is M \otimes _ R N.

Proof. Suppose M is finite. Then choose a presentation 0 \to K \to R^{\oplus n} \to M \to 0. This gives an exact sequence K \otimes _ R N \to N^{\oplus n} \to M \otimes _ R N \to 0 by Lemma 10.12.10. We conclude that if N is finite too then M \otimes _ R N is a quotient of a finite module, hence finite, see Lemma 10.5.3. Similarly, if both N and M are finitely presented, then we see that K is finite and that M \otimes _ R N is a quotient of the finitely presented module N^{\oplus n} by a finite module, namely K \otimes _ R N, and hence finitely presented, see Lemma 10.5.3. \square


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