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comment Why define vector spaces over fields instead of a PID?
Basically you are asking which properties for vector spaces break down for modules. Well, open any book on algebra which treats modules. Hundreds of examples (torsion, non-split sequences, non-injectivity, non-projectivity, etc.). I won't reproduce it in detail here, because it is contained in every book on module theory (but others will do, of course).
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answered Adjoints preserve limts (resp. colimits) Do they preserves completeness (resp. cocompleteness)?
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comment Subrings and homomorphisms of unitary rings
This question pops up here almost every week or so ... what about using the search function.
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answered Inverse image of prime ideal in noncommutative ring
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comment tensor product and direct product of algebra presentations
$X$ is the set of chosen generators for the first algebra, $x \in X$ is an element (I was a bit lazy and avoided the set-theoretic mess). Have you understood the universal property of $A \times B$?
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$a \oplus b = a \times b$ is absolutely wrong when you leave the category of modules (think about sets, for example).
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comment How does one show that two functors are *not* isomorphic?
In my thesis I will prove a variant of $\Lambda(V^*) \cong (\Lambda V)^*$ for locally free objects in cocomplete symmetric monoidal categories. There is really only one natural morphism which one can write down in that generality.
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comment How does one show that two functors are *not* isomorphic?
Just to be sure: By $S^n(V)$ you mean $\mathrm{Sym}^n(V)$, the $n$th symmetric power, right?
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comment How does one show that two functors are *not* isomorphic?
This doesn't address the question.
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comment Inverse image of prime ideal in noncommutative ring
Prime ideals should be proper.
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answered Quasicompact over affine scheme
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comment Is there an open mapping theorem for affine morphisms?
Trivial example: $\phi$ surjective
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Thank you for reproducing my answer.
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PS: In the non-unital case Q2 would be much simpler.
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This is not correct.
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