It is shown that the ideal theories of the fields of all meromorphic functions on any two noncompact Riemann surfaces are isomorphic. Further, various new representation and factorization theorems are proved. Introduction. Throughout this paper let X and Y denote noncompact (connected) Riemann surfaces. Let A(X) (or A for short), denote the ring of all analytic functions on X, and let F(X) (or ...

Let R be a local ring of bounded module type. It is shown that R is an almost maximal valuation ring if there exists a non-maximal prime ideal J such that R/J is an almost maximal valuation domain. We deduce from this that R is almost maximal if one of the following conditions is satisfied: R is a Q-algebra of Krull dimension ≤ 1 or the maximal ideal of R is the union of all non-maximal prime i...