[Math] Nilpotency of Maximal Ideal of Local Ring

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What are the implications of the maximal ideal of a local ring $(A,m,k)$ being nilpotent? For example, $A$ is Artinian if and only if it is Noetherian. Any other interesting implications?

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Nakayama's Lemma holds for arbitrary modules (without f.g. assumption): $M/\mathfrak{m}M=0$ implies $M=0$. Of course this is purely formal and holds for every nilpotent ideal.

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