Abstract
This paper contributes several results to the analytic theory of ideals. The main new concept is that of a prereduction (together with the closely related type-prereduction): if R is a ring and I (proper subset) are proper ideals in R, then A is called a prereduction of I in case A is not a reduction of I, but each ideal between A and I is a reduction of I. It is shown that each non-nilpotent proper ideal in a Noetherian ring has at least one prereduction, and a number of the basic properties of the ideals in the set
of all prereductions of I are proved. Also, if I is a non-nilpotent proper ideal in a local (Noetherian) ring (R, M), then:
There is a natural one-to-one correspondence between the set
of the equivalence classes of the type-prereductions of I and the set
of the maximal relevant ideals in the Rees ring of I (that is, the homogeneous prime ideals Q in the ring
(t an indeterminate) such that
and the Krull dimension of
is equal to one).
is the set of maximal elements in
for all positive integers n, and, for each
for all large integers m.
A complete description is given of the prereductions and the elements in
for each ideal I that is generated by analytically independent elements.
If R/M is algebraically closed and I is a non-nilpotent and non-principal ideal in R, then there is a natural one-to-one correspondence between the sets
and
and
for all positive integer n.
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Notes
1 It is shown in Corollary 7.2 (in Section 7) that bM is the unique prereduction of a non-nilpotent proper principal ideal bR in a local ring (R, M).
2 This is a special case of Example 3.2.4.
3 When it is unnecessary to refer to the specific integers k and then we will generically use type-reduction in place of reduction-of-type
(and, similarly, type-prereduction in place of prereduction-of-type
).
4 Therefore, since is a prereduction-of-type
of I, it follows from Remark 5.5.2.d that
and the strict inequality may hold; this is related to Remark 5.10.3.