Introduction. The concept of a local ring was introduced by Krull [7](1), who defined such a ring as a commutative ring 9î in which every ideal has a finite basis and in which the set m of all non-units is an ideal, necessarily maximal. He proved that the intersection of all the powers of m is the zero ideal. If the powers of m are introduced as a system of neighborhoods of zero, then 3Î thus b...

Introduction. L. Fuchs [2 ] has given for Noetherian rings a theory of the representation of an ideal as an intersection of primal ideals, the theory being in many ways analogous to the classical Noether theory. An ideal Q is primal if the elements not prime to Q form an ideal, necessarily prime, called the adjoint of Q. Primary ideals are necessarily primal, but not conversely. Analogous resul...

For every prime integer p, M. Hochster conjectured the existence of certain p-torsion elements in a local cohomology module over a regular ring of mixed characteristic. We show that Hochster’s conjecture is false. We next construct an example where a local cohomology module over a hypersurface has p-torsion elements for every prime integer p, and consequently has infinitely many associated prim...

Using the idea of prime and semiprime bi-ideals of rings, the concept of prime and semiprime generalized bi-ideals of rings is introduced, which is an extension of the concept of prime and semiprime bi-ideals of rings and some interesting characterizations of prime and semiprime generalized bi-ideals are obtained. Also, we give the relationship between the Baer radical and prime and semiprime g...

We characterize which complete local (Noetherian) rings [Formula: see text] containing the rationals are completion of a countable excellent ring text]. also discuss possibilities for map from minimal prime ideals to and we prove some characterization-style results.

This expository paper contains history, definitions, constructions, and the basic properties of Rees valuations of ideals. A section is devoted to one-fibered ideals, that is, ideals with only one Rees valuation. Cutkosky [5] proved that there exists a two-dimensional complete Noetherian local integrally closed domain in which no zero-dimensional ideal is one-fibered. However, no concrete ring ...

It is known that the maximal ideals in the rings C(X) and C*(X) of continuous and bounded continuous functions on X, respectively, are in one-to-one correspondence with j3X. We have shown previously that the same is true for any ring A(X) between C(X) and C*(X). Here we consider the problem for rings A(X) contained in C'{X) which are complete rings of functions (that is, they contain the consta...

The real closed valuation rings, i.e., convex subrings of real closed fields, form a proper subclass of the class of real closed domains. It is shown how one can recognize whether a real closed domain is a valuation ring. This leads to a characterization of the totally ordered domains whose real closure is a valuation ring. Real closures of totally ordered factor rings of coordinate rings of re...

Skew polynomial rings have invited attention of mathematicians and various properties of these rings have been discussed. The nature of ideals (in particular prime ideals, minimal prime ideals, associated prime ideals), primary decomposition and Krull dimension have been investigated in certain cases. In this article, we introduce a notion of primary decomposition of a noncommutative ring. We s...

Let R be a differential domain finitely generated over a differential field F of characteristic 0. Let C be the subfield of differential constants of F. This paper investigates conditions on differential ideals of R that are necessary or sufficient to guarantee that C is also the set of constants of differentiation of the quotient field, E, of R. In particular when C is algebraically closed and...