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Going Down and Open Extensions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Stephen McAdam*
Affiliation:
University of Texas, Austin, Texas
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We call an extension of commutative rings, RT, open if the spec mapping from spec (T) to spec (R), which sends the prime Q of T to QR, is an open mapping. It is easy to show, as for example in [1], that if RT is open then it satisfies going down. In general, the converse is false, as is shown by Z(2z) with Z the integers. To the best of this author's knowledge, it is an open question whether for an integral extension, going down and open are equivalent.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1975

References

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