What is the German translation of "catenary ring"? - MathOverflow most recent 30 from http://mathoverflow.net 2013-05-21T13:08:05Z http://mathoverflow.net/feeds/question/22161 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://mathoverflow.net/questions/22161/what-is-the-german-translation-of-catenary-ring What is the German translation of "catenary ring"? Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen 2010-04-22T07:58:30Z 2010-04-22T10:32:51Z <p>I am looking for the correct technical term in German for the notion of <i>catenary ring</i> in commutative algebra.</p> <p>Does anyone know?</p> <blockquote> <p>For those who don't know what a catenary ring is but would like to: A Noetherian commutative ring A is called <i>catenary</i> if the following codimension formula holds for irreducible closed subsets T &sube; Y &sube; Z of Spec A:</p> <blockquote> <p>codim(T, Z) = codim(T, Y) + codim (Y, Z).</p> </blockquote> </blockquote> http://mathoverflow.net/questions/22161/what-is-the-german-translation-of-catenary-ring/22162#22162 Answer by Christian Perfect for What is the German translation of "catenary ring"? Christian Perfect 2010-04-22T08:11:46Z 2010-04-22T08:11:46Z <p>according to <a href="http://henked.de/maple/dictionary" rel="nofollow">this German Maths Dictionary</a>, it's 'kettenlinie'</p> http://mathoverflow.net/questions/22161/what-is-the-german-translation-of-catenary-ring/22163#22163 Answer by vonjd for What is the German translation of "catenary ring"? vonjd 2010-04-22T08:30:35Z 2010-04-22T08:30:35Z <p>Katenoide, also Seilkurve, Kettenlinie or Kettenkurve</p> <p><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katenoide" rel="nofollow">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katenoide</a></p> http://mathoverflow.net/questions/22161/what-is-the-german-translation-of-catenary-ring/22168#22168 Answer by K Halb for What is the German translation of "catenary ring"? K Halb 2010-04-22T09:04:28Z 2010-04-22T09:04:28Z <p>It should be "Kettenring", see for example p. 148 in <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=agw3I3IwUDMC&amp;pg=PA256&amp;lpg=PA256&amp;dq=kettenring+primideal&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=M3d7_XqnGb&amp;sig=mFjpisRgp5tnpwnRj0ub45HzTTQ&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=vgTQS8zKNYOQOI7xnZ0P&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=3&amp;ved=0CBcQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&amp;q=kettenring&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow">Brodmann, Algebraische Geometrie</a>.</p>