On the Preservation for Quasi-Modularity of Field Extensions
El Hassane Fliouet
Let $k$ be a field of characteristic $p\not=0$. In 1968, M. E. Sweedler revealed for the first time, the usefulness of the concept of modularity. This notion, which plays an important role especially for Galois theory of purely inseparable extensions, was used to characterize purely inseparable extensions of bounded exponent which were tensor products of simple extensions. A natural extension of the definition of modularity is to say that $K/k$ is $q$-modular (quasi-modular) if $K$ is modular up to some finite extension. In subsequent papers, M. Chellali and the author have studied various property of $q$-modular field extensions, including the questions of $q$-modularity preservation in case $[k:k^p]$ is finite. This paper grew out of an attempt to find analogue results concerning the preservation of $q$-modularity, without the hypothesis on $k$ but with extra assumptions on $K/k$. In particular, we investigate existence conditions of lower (resp. upper) quasi-modular closures for a given $q$-finite extension.