G-graded irreducibility and the index of reducibility

Abstract

Let $R$ be a commutative Noetherian ring graded by a torsionfree abelian group $G$. We introduce the notion of $G$-graded irreducibility and prove that $G$-graded irreducibility is equivalent to irreducibility in the usual sense. This is a generalization of Chen and Kim's result in the $\mathbb{Z}$-graded case. We also discuss the concept of the index of reducibility and give an inequality for the indices of reducibility between any radical non-graded ideal and its largest graded subideal.