Abstract
The main objective of this paper is to relate the height and the number of generators of ideals in rings that are not necessarily Noetherian. As in [{\bf10, 11}], we call an ideal $I$ of a ring $R$ radically perfect if among the ideals of $R$ whose radical is equal to the radical of $I$ the one with the least number of generators has this number of generators equal to the height of $I$. This is a generalization of the notion of set theoretic complete intersection of ideals in Noetherian rings to rings that need not be Noetherian. In this work, we determine conditions on a ring $R$ so that the prime ideals of $R$ and also those of the polynomial rings $R[X]$ over $R$ are radically perfect. In many cases, it is shown that the condition of prime ideals of $R$ or that of $R[X]$ being radically perfect is equivalent to a form of the class group of $R$ being torsion.
Citation
V. Erdoğdu. S. Harman. "Commutative rings whose prime ideals are radically perfect." J. Commut. Algebra 5 (4) 527 - 544, WINTER 2013. https://doi.org/10.1216/JCA-2013-5-4-527
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