Practice problem
Commutative Algebra
Let and be local rings, and a ring homomorphism.
For convenience in this problem only, call a data tuple good if is a ring homomorphism and and are prime ideals of and , resp., such that .
Now consider the following two conditions on :
- is a local homomorphism.
- There exists a good tuple and a commutative diagram down from to such that the vertical maps and induce isomorphisms and , meaning, precisely, that factors through the localization map with an isomorphism, and similarly for .
Are the above two conditions on equivalent?