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4.10 module

Modules are submodules of a free module over the basering with basis gen(1), gen(2), … . They are represented by lists of vectors which generate the submodule. Like vectors they can only be defined or accessed with respect to a basering. If $M$ is a submodule of $R^n$,

$R$ the basering, generated by vectors $v_1, \ldots, v_k$, then $v_1, \ldots, v_k$ may be considered as the generators of relations of $R^n/M$ between the canonical generators gen(1),…,gen(n). Hence any finitely generated $R$ -module can be represented in SINGULAR by its module of relations. The assignments module M=v1,...,vk; matrix A=M; create the presentation matrix of size n$\times$k for R$^n$/M, i.e., the columns of A are the vectors $v_1, \ldots, v_k$ which generate M (cf. Representation of mathematical objects).


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