Let R be a commutative integral domain with quotient field K and let P be a nonzero strongly prime ideal of R. We give several characterizations of such ideals. It is shown that (P : P) is a valuation domain with the unique maximal ideal P. We also study when P^{&minus1} is a ring. In fact, it is proved that P^{&minus1} = (P : P) if and only if P is not invertible. Furthermore, if P is invertib...

Definition 3.4. The ideal group IA of a noetherian domain A is the group of invertible fractional ideals. Note that, despite the name, elements of IA need not be ideals. Every nonzero principal fractional ideal (x) is invertible (since (x)−1 = (x−1)), and a product of principal fractional ideals is principal (since (x)(y) = (xy)), as is the unit ideal (1), thus the set of nonzero principal frac...

An integral domain $D$ is called a emph{locally GCD domain} if $D_{M}$ is aGCD domain for every maximal ideal $M$ of $D$. We study somering-theoretic properties of locally GCD domains. E.g., we show that $%D$ is a locally GCD domain if and only if $aDcap bD$ is locally principalfor all $0neq a,bin D$, and flat overrings of a locally GCD domain arelocally GCD. We also show that the t-class group...

The rank decoding problem has been the subject of much attention in this last decade. This problem, which is at base security public-key cryptosystems based on metric codes, traditionally studied over finite fields. But recent generalizations certain classes rank-metric codes from fields to rings have naturally created interest tackle case rings.In paper, we show that solving principal ideal le...