Tower of field extensions #
In this file we prove the tower law for arbitrary extensions and finite extensions.
Suppose L
is a field extension of K
and K
is a field extension of F
.
Then [L:F] = [L:K] [K:F]
where [E₁:E₂]
means the E₂
-dimension of E₁
.
In fact we generalize it to vector spaces, where L
is not necessarily a field,
but just a vector space over K
.
Implementation notes #
We prove two versions, since there are two notions of dimensions: module.rank
which gives
the dimension of an arbitrary vector space as a cardinal, and finite_dimensional.finrank
which
gives the dimension of a finitely-dimensional vector space as a natural number.
Tags #
tower law
Tower law: if A
is a K
-vector space and K
is a field extension of F
then
dim_F(A) = dim_F(K) * dim_K(A)
.
Tower law: if A
is a K
-vector space and K
is a field extension of F
then
dim_F(A) = dim_F(K) * dim_K(A)
.
Tower law: if A
is a K
-algebra and K
is a field extension of F
then
dim_F(A) = dim_F(K) * dim_K(A)
.