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In mathematics, the ith Bass number of a module M over a local ring R with residue field k is the k-dimension of Ext R i ( k , M ) {\displaystyle \operatorname {Ext} _{R}^{i}(k,M)} . More generally the Bass number μ i ( p , M ) {\displaystyle \mu _{i}(p,M)} of a module M over a ring R at a prime ideal p is the Bass number of the localization of M for the localization of R (with respect to the prime p). Bass numbers were introduced by Hyman Bass (1963, p.11).

The Bass numbers describe the minimal injective resolution of a finitely-generated module M over a Noetherian ring: for each prime ideal p there is a corresponding indecomposable injective module, and the number of times this occurs in the ith term of a minimal resolution of M is the Bass number μ i ( p , M ) {\displaystyle \mu _{i}(p,M)} .

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