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Maximal Chains of Prime Ideals of Different Lengths in Unique Factorization Domains

Commutative Algebra 2019-01-10 v1

Abstract

We show that, given integers n1,n2,,nkn_1,n_2, \ldots ,n_k with 2<n1<n2<<nk2 < n_1 < n_2 < \cdots < n_k, there exists a local (Noetherian) unique factorization domain that has maximal chains of prime ideals of lengths n1,n2,,nkn_1, n_2, \ldots ,n_k which are disjoint except at their minimal and maximal elements. In addition, we demonstrate that unique factorization domains can have other unusual prime ideal structures.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1901.02790,
  title  = {Maximal Chains of Prime Ideals of Different Lengths in Unique Factorization Domains},
  author = {S. Loepp and Alex Semendinger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.02790},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

20 pages, 3 figures. To be published in the Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics