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A prime ideal and its quotient ring

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

T. W. Atterton
Affiliation:
University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW.
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Abstract

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Given arbitrary rings A, B such that AB and an arbitrary prime ideal P of A, we show how to construct a quotient ring Ap such that AApB. The ring Ap contains a prime ideal P lying over P and the prime ring A/P may be embedded in Ap/P.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1970

References

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