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On flat finitely generated ideals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

David E. Dobbs
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37916, USA.
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Abstract

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It is shown that if I is a finitely generated ideal of a commutative ring R such that the multiplication map IRII is an injection, then I is locally principal. As a corollary, one obtains a new homological characterization of Prüfer domains.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1980

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