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Radical Ideals in Valuation Domains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

John E. van den Berg
John E. van den Berg*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal Pietermaritzburg, Private Bag X01, Scottsville 3209, South Africa email: vandenberg@ukzn.ac.za
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Abstract

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An ideal $I$ of a ring $R$ is called a radical ideal if $I\,=\,\mathcal{R}(R)$ where $\mathcal{R}$ is a radical in the sense of Kurosh–Amitsur. The main theorem of this paper asserts that if $R$ is a valuation domain, then a proper ideal $I$ of $R$ is a radical ideal if and only if $I$ is a distinguished ideal of $R$ (the latter property means that if $J$ and $K$ are ideals of $R$ such that $J\,\subset \,I\,\subset \,K$ then we cannot have $I/J\,\cong \,K/I$ as rings) and that such an ideal is necessarily prime. Examples are exhibited which show that, unlike prime ideals, distinguished ideals are not characterizable in terms of a property of the underlying value group of the valuation domain.

Keywords

16N8013A18
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 59 , Issue 4 , 01 August 2007 , pp. 880 - 896
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2007

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