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Quotient overrings of integral domains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

William Heinzer
William Heinzer
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Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana.
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If D is an integral domain with quotient field K, then by an overring of D we shall mean a ring D′ such that D ⊂ D′ ⊂ K. Gilmer and Ohm in [GO], Davis in [D] and Pendleton in [P] have studied the class of integral domains D having the property that each overring D′ of D is of the form Ds for some multiplicative system S of D. In [D] and [P] a domain with this property is called a Q-domain and in [GO] such a domain is said to have the QR-property. Slightly altering the terminology of [D] and [P], we shall say “QR-domain” instead of “Q-domain”. Noetherian QR-domains are precisely the Dedekind domains having torsion class group [GO; p. 97] or [D; p. 200]. Pendleton in [P; p. 500] classifies QR-domains as Prüfer domains satisfying the additional condition that the radical of each finitely generated ideal is the radical of a principal ideal. It is pointed out in [P; p. 500] that this characterization of QR-domains still leaves unresolved the question of whether the class group of a QR-domain is necessarily a torsion group. We show in §1 that a QR-domain need not have torsion class group. Our construction is direct; however, the problem can be viewed in terms of the realization of certain ordered abelian groups as divisibility groups of Prüfer domains, and we conclude §1 with a brief discussion of this approach to the problem.

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Mathematika , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , June 1970 , pp. 139 - 148
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Copyright © University College London 1970

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