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Awms A
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Awms A asked in Science & MathematicsMathematics · 1 decade ago

Minimal primes and ring extensions?

Suppose R is a subring of S and suppose p is a minimal prime ideal of R.

Prove or disprove:

p is contracted.

i.e. There is some prime ideal q of S such that q intersected with R is p.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I think yes

    First, let M=R-p

    Since p is prime, M is a multiplicative set in S that does not contain 0.

    Let N={I ideal in S| I intersected M=empty set}

    N is nonempty (it contains 0} and satisfies the condition of Zorn's Lemma

    So it has a maximal element q; which can be proved is prime

    (take ab in q, a,b not in Q; so (q+Sa) intersected M and

    (q+Sb) intersected M nonempty...

    (this appears also in Matsumara, Commutative algebra, page 5)

    Now q intersected R is a prime ideal in R that by construction of q is included in p.

    Since p is minimal, the intersection is p.

    no comments?!

  • 1 decade ago

    Have you tested this on the ring of the integers?

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