Finite algebra

This concept is closely related to that of finite morphism in algebraic geometry; in the simplest case of affine varieties, given two affine varieties ${\displaystyle V\subset \mathbb {A} ^{n}}$, ${\displaystyle W\subset \mathbb {A} ^{m}}$ and a dominant regular map ${\displaystyle \phi \colon V\to W}$, the induced homomorphism of ${\displaystyle \Bbbk }$-algebras ${\displaystyle \phi ^{*}\colon \Gamma (W)\to \Gamma (V)}$ defined by ${\displaystyle \phi ^{*}f=f\circ \phi }$ turns ${\displaystyle \Gamma (V)}$ into a ${\displaystyle \Gamma (W)}$-algebra:

${\displaystyle \phi }$ is a finite morphism of affine varieties if ${\displaystyle \phi ^{*}\colon \Gamma (W)\to \Gamma (V)}$ is a finite morphism of ${\displaystyle \Bbbk }$-algebras.[2]

The generalisation to schemes can be found in the article on finite morphisms.

• Finite morphism
• Finitely generated algebra
• Finitely generated module