Greetings, in my studies I went into a statement "minimal generating set of a free module over a local ring is a free basis". The statement came without a proof, just with a reference to Kaplansky's theorem. I was unsuccessful trying to prove the statement myself, and I couldn't find the proof elsewhere either. I would be grateful for any hint.
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Any free module $M$ is projective. Then, when $M$ is finitely generated, you can use the argument given in Matsumura, Commutative Ring Theory, proof of Theorem 2.5 page 10. Matsumura also expains the argument used by Kaplanski ["Projective modules", Ann. Math. 68 (1958)] in the general case. |
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