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Generalizations of Prime Ideals

2008, Communications in Algebra

AI-generated Abstract

This paper explores generalizations of prime ideals in commutative ring theory, focusing on various definitions, properties, and examples of ideals such as strongly prime, weakly prime, and almost prime ideals. It highlights how these generalizations can be obtained by either enlarging or restricting conditions on the elements involved in ideal membership, and demonstrates the implications of these generalizations in different types of rings, including Noetherian rings. The paper further develops theoretical results regarding the structure of proper ideals within special types of rings.

Key takeaways

  • Bhatwadekar and Sharma (2005) recently defined a proper ideal I of an integral domain R to be almost prime if for a b ∈ R with ab ∈ I − I 2 , then either a ∈ I or b ∈ I.
  • If m 2 = 0, then every proper ideal of R is weakly prime and hence -prime.
  • If P is actually a prime ideal, then P is a 2 -prime ideal and 2 P = √ P 2 = P. However, if R is the ring of algebraic integers and P = M ∩ N where M is a prime ideal of R lying over 2 and N is a prime ideal of R lying over 3 , then P is an idempotent radical ideal that is not prime.
  • (1) (⇐) A prime ideal is -prime for every .
  • (⇒) Suppose that every proper principal ideal of R is almost prime.