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I assume $R[X]\rightarrow R[[X]]$ is not flat in general, but I was wondering if any conditions on a commutative ring $R$ are known such that $R[[X]]$ is flat as a $R[X]$-module. Would $R$ noetherian ...

It is known that $A[[X]]$ is flat if $A$ is noetherian (see for example Bourbaki, Algèbre commutative, Ch. III, §3, Cor. 3 p. 146). What happens if A is not noetherian? Is there an easy counter-...

(This is a follow-up to a previous question; as often happens, I didn't include enough hypotheses, so I'm asking a new, more-likely-to-be-true question). Consider the formal plane $\operatorname{Spec}...

Consider the formal plane $\operatorname{Spec}\mathbb C[[t,h]]$, and let $\mathcal F$ be a quasi-coherent sheaf. Now assume that $\mathcal F$ is flat over infinitely many lines through the origin of ...