Paper 4, Section II, E

Groups, Rings and Modules
Part IB, 2014

(a) Consider the four following types of rings: Principal Ideal Domains, Integral Domains, Fields, and Unique Factorisation Domains. Arrange them in the form AA \Longrightarrow BCDB \Longrightarrow C \Longrightarrow D (where ABA \Longrightarrow B means if a ring is of type AA then it is of type BB )

Prove that these implications hold. [You may assume that irreducibles in a Principal Ideal Domain are prime.] Provide examples, with brief justification, to show that these implications cannot be reversed.

(b) Let RR be a ring with ideals II and JJ satisfying IJI \subseteq J. Define KK to be the set {rR:rJI}\{r \in R: r J \subseteq I\}. Prove that KK is an ideal of RR. If JJ and KK are principal, prove that II is principal.