Comaximal Factorization Lattices

Abstract

Brewer and Heinzer studied the (integral) domains D having the property that each proper ideal A of D has a comaximal ideal factorization with some additional property. They proved that for a domain D, the following are equivalent: (1) Each proper ideal A of D has a comaximal factorization where the factors have prime radical (resp. are primary, resp. are prime powers). (2) The prime spectrum of D is a tree under inclusion and each ideal of D has only finitely many minimal primes (resp. D is one dimensional and each ideal of D has only finitely many minimal primes, resp. D is a Dedekind domain). The aim of this paper is to show that most of the results can be obtained in the setup of multiplicative lattices.

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