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The McCoy property in Ohm-Rush algebras

Commutative Algebra 2020-10-12 v1

Abstract

An Ohm-Rush algebra RSR \rightarrow S is called *McCoy* if for any zero-divisor ff in SS, its content c(f)c(f) has nonzero annihilator in RR, because McCoy proved this when S=R[x]S=R[x]. We answer a question of Nasehpour by giving an example of a faithfully flat Ohm-Rush algebra with the McCoy property that is not a weak content algebra. However, we show that a faithfully flat Ohm-Rush algebra is a weak content algebra iff R/IS/ISR/I \rightarrow S/I S is McCoy for all radical (resp. prime) ideals II of RR. When RR is Noetherian (or has the more general \emph{fidel (A)} property), we show that it is equivalent that R/IS/ISR/I \rightarrow S/IS is McCoy for all ideals.

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@article{arxiv.2010.04208,
  title  = {The McCoy property in Ohm-Rush algebras},
  author = {Neil Epstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.04208},
  year   = {2020}
}

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5 pages. Comments quite welcome!