Krull dimension of a preordered set #
If α
is a preordered set, then krullDim α
is defined to be sup {n | a₀ < a₁ < ... < aₙ}
.
In case that α
is empty, then its Krull dimension is defined to be negative infinity; if the
length of all series a₀ < a₁ < ... < aₙ
is unbounded, then its Krull dimension is defined to
be positive infinity.
For a : α
, its height is defined to be the krull dimension of the subset (-∞, a]
while its
coheight is defined to be the krull dimension of [a, +∞)
.
Implementation notes #
Krull dimensions are defined to take value in WithBot (WithTop ℕ)
so that (-∞) + (+∞)
is
also negative infinity. This is because we want Krull dimensions to be additive with respect
to product of varieties so that -∞
being the Krull dimension of empty variety is equal to
sum of -∞
and the Krull dimension of any other varieties.
We could generalize the notion of Krull dimension to an arbitrary binary relation; many results in this file would generalize as well. But we don't think it would be useful, so we only define Krull dimension of a preorder.
The Krull dimension of a preorder α
is the supremum of the rightmost index of all relation
series of α
order by <
. If there is no series a₀ < a₁ < ... < aₙ
in α
, then its Krull
dimension is defined to be negative infinity; if the length of all series a₀ < a₁ < ... < aₙ
is
unbounded, its Krull dimension is defined to be positive infinity.