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SOME REMARKS ON PRINCIPAL PRIME IDEALS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 September 2010

D. D. ANDERSON*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA (email: dan-anderson@uiowa.edu)
SANGMIN CHUN
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, Republic of Korea (email: schun@snu.ac.kr)
*
For correspondence; e-mail: dan-anderson@uiowa.edu
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Abstract

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In this paper we investigate principal prime ideals in commutative rings. Among other things we characterize the principal prime ideals that are both minimal and maximal and characterize the maximal ideals of a polynomial ring that are principal. Our main result is that if (p) is a principal prime ideal of an atomic ring R, then ht(p)≤1.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 2010

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