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9 - Ideals and Prime Factorization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2022

John Stillwell
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University of San Francisco
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The remaining step on the road to unique prime ideal factorization is to define "prime ideal" itself. This involves a definition of "division" for ideals. If we also define "product" of ideals, then a prime ideal is one with a property originally discovered by Euclid: if a prime p divides a product ab, then p divides a or p divides b. We then have all the ingredients needed for the definition of Dedekind domain: a Noetherian, integrally closed ring in which all prime ideals are maximal. And the main theorem follows: in a Dedekind domain, each ideal is a unique product of prime ideals.

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Algebraic Number Theory for Beginners
Following a Path From Euclid to Noether
, pp. 189 - 210
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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