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On the embedded primary components of ideals. IV

1995, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

The results in this paper expand the fundamental decomposition theory of ideals pioneered by Emmy Noether. Specifically, let I I be an ideal in a local ring ( R , M ) (R,M) that has M M as an embedded prime divisor, and for a prime divisor P P of I I let I C P ( I ) I{C_P}(I) be the set of irreducible components q q of I I that are P P -primary (so there exists a decomposition of I I as an irredundant finite intersection of irreducible ideals that has q q as a factor). Then the main results show: (a) I C M ( I ) = ∪ { I C M ( Q ) ; Q is a  MEC ⁡  of  I } I{C_M}(I) = \cup \{ I{C_M}(Q);Q\;{\text {is a }}\operatorname {MEC} {\text { of }}I\} ( Q Q is a MEC of I I in case Q Q is maximal in the set of M M -primary components of I I ); (b) if I = ∩ { q i ; i = 1 , … , n } I = \cap \{ {q_i};i = 1, \ldots ,n\} is an irredundant irreducible decomposition of I I such that q i {q_i} is M M -primary if and only if i = 1 , … , k > n i = 1, \ldots ,k > n , then ∩ { q i ; i = 1 , … , k } \ca...