Paper 4, Section II, E
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 (where means if a ring is of type then it is of type )
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 be a ring with ideals and satisfying . Define to be the set . Prove that is an ideal of . If and are principal, prove that is principal.