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    M a 120a ABSTRACT ALGEBRA

    HOMEWORK SET 6 Fall 2017

    INSTRUCTOR: D. RAMAKRISHNAN 256 BRIDGE, EXT: ×4348


    DUE: 11- 20- 2017 BY 4 PM

    You must do problems (1) through (4). Problem (5) is for extra credit. All rings
    are commutative in this HW assignment (as it has been for the past few weeks).
    You may use the fact that polynomial rings over a field are UFDs.

    (1) Let R be an integral domain and p a non-zero element of R. (One says that p
    is a prime element of R, or is irreducible in R, iff p is not a unit in R, but p = ab
    implies either a or b is in R× .)
    (a) Prove that if the principal ideal I = pR is a prime ideal, then p is a prime
    element. √
    (b) Let R be the ring Z[ −5]. Show that 2 is a prime element of R but that
    2R is not a prime ideal. What is the primary decomposition of 2R ?
    (c) Suppose p is a prime element in R. Show that if R is a UFD, then pR is a
    prime ideal; then discuss the example of (b) in this context. If R is a PID,
    prove that pR is even a maximal ideal of R.

    (2) Establish from first principles, i.e., without quoting theorems on primary
    decompositions, the following assertions concerning the set X0 , say, of zero divisors
    in a (commutative) Noetherian ring R.
    (a) X0 is a union of prime ideals in R.
    (b) X0 contains the union Xmin of minimal prime ideals.
    (c) X0 can be strictly large than Xmin (give an example).
    (Hint: Check first that S := R − X0 is a multiplicative set. Then prove that
    for any x ∈ X0 , the collection Tx of ideals I containing x but not meeting S is
    non-empty and has a maximal element Px , which must be prime.)

    (3) ∏Let I = f R be a principal ideal in R = k[X1 , . . . , Xn ], with k a field. If


    r m
    f = j=1 fj j is the factorization of F into its irreducible factors, prove that I has
    the primary decomposition:
    m
    I = ∩rj=1 Qj , with Qj = fj j R,
    with associated prime ideals Pj = fj R. Show also that each Pj is a minimal prime
    ideal of R. (The definition we use in this course for a minimal prime ideal precludes
    it being the zero ideal.)

    (4) Let R = k[X, Y, Z] be the polynomial ring in X, Y, Z over a field k. Denote


    by I the ideal ((Y 2 − XZ)(Z 2 − X 2 Y ), (Y 2 − XZ)Z). Show that I has the primary
    1
    2
    INSTRUCTOR: D. RAMAKRISHNAN 256 BRIDGE, EXT: ×4348 DUE: 11- 20- 2017 BY 4 PM

    decomposition
    I = (Y 2 − XZ) ∩ (X 2 , Z) ∩ (Y, Z 2 ),
    which is not redundant. Determine Ass(I), and check which associated primes are
    isolated and which ones are embedded.
    (Note: The following fact was discussed in class: If N is a proper submodule of a
    Noetherian module M with primary decomposition ∩m J=1 Qj with Qj primary, then
    Ass(N ) consists of the primes associated the Qj ’s.)

    (5) Let R be a commutative ring (̸= (0)). Let M be a maximal ideal of R with
    residue field k = R/M. For any R-module N , define rkM (N ), the rank of N at
    M, to be the dimension of the k-vector space N/MN (≃ N ⊗R k). Prove the
    following:
    (a) If N is a free R-module with basis {xi | i ∈ I}, denoted RI , then rkM (N )
    equals |I|, the cardinality of I.
    (b) RI ≃ RJ =⇒ I = J.
    (c) rkM (N ⊕ L) = rkM (N ) + rkM (L).
    (d) rkM (N ⊗ L) = rkM (N ) · rkM (L).
    (You may use known theorems on dimensions of vector spaces.)

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