Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 April 2009
In this article the concept of Dedekind semidomain is defined, and it is shown that certain structures of this kind are Noetherian, have integral closure, and have the property that their prime k-ideals are maximal. The second section provides the appropriate transportation theorems, while the third gives the main result concerning Dedekind semidomains. Examples are given throughout the paper to show that the hypothesies of certain theorems in the paper cannot be greatly weakened.