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Multiplicative Ideal Theory in Commutative Algebra

A Tribute to the Work of Robert Gilmer

herausgegeben von: James W. Brewer, Sarah Glaz, William J. Heinzer, Bruce M. Olberding

Verlag: Springer US

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For over forty years, Robert Gilmer’s numerous articles and books have had a tremendous impact on research in commutative algebra. It is not an exaggeration to say that most articles published today in non-Noetherian ring theory, and some in Noetherian ring theory as well, originated in a topic that Gilmer either initiated or enriched by his work. This volume, a tribute to his work, consists of twenty-four articles authored by Robert Gilmer’s most prominent students and followers. These articles combine surveys of past work by Gilmer and others, recent results which have never before seen print, open problems, and extensive bibliographies. In a concluding article, Robert Gilmer points out directions for future research, highlighting the open problems in the areas he considers of importance. Robert Gilmer’s article is followed by the complete list of his published works, his mathematical genealogical tree, information on the writing of his four books, and reminiscences about Robert Gilmer’s contributions to the stimulating research environment in commutative algebra at Florida State in the middle 1960s. The entire collection provides an in-depth overview of the topics of research in a significant and large area of commutative algebra.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter
Commutative rngs
D. D. Anderson
Robert Gilmer’s work on semigroup rings
David F. Anderson
Numerical semigroup algebras
Valentina Barucci
Prüfer rings
Silvana Bazzoni, Sarah Glaz
Subrings of zero-dimensional rings
Jim Brewer, Fred Richman
Old problems and new questions around integer-valued polynomials and factorial sequences
Jean-Luc Chabert, Paul-Jean Cahen
Robert Gilmer’s contributions to the theory of integer-valued polynomials
Scott T. Chapman, Vadim Ponomarenko, William W. Smith
Progress on the dimension question for power series rings
Jim Coykendall
Some research on chains of prime ideals influenced by the writings of Robert Gilmer
D. E. Dobbs
Direct-sum decompositions over one-dimensional Cohen-Macaulay local rings
Alberto Facchini, Wolfgang Hassler, Lee Klingler, Roger Wiegand
An historical overview of Kronecker function rings, Nagata rings, and related star and semistar operations
Marco Fontana, K. Alan Loper
Generalized Dedekind domains
Stefania Gabelli
Non-unique factorizations: a survey
Alfred Geroldinger, Franz Halter-Koch
Mixed polynomial/power series rings and relatinos among their spectra
William Heinzer, Christel Rotthaus, Sylvia Wiegand
Uppers to zero in polynomial rings
Evan Houston
On the dimension theory of polynomial rings over pullbacks
S. Kabbaj
Almost Dedekind domains which are not Dedekind
K. Allan Loper
Integrality properties of polynomial rings and semigroup rings
Thomas G. Lucas
Punctually free ideals
7 Concluding remarks
Let I be a nonzero f.g. PF ideal. We have seen that I is invertible iff it is regular, and I is projective iff rk I is constant on a nhbd of each prime; thus, such an I is invertible iff it is a regular projective ideal. Moreover, the Bourbaki example shows that such an I may be projective of constant rk 1 and still not be invertible. From a local perspective the two notions seem very close, yet their global characterizations appear to be quite different, with invertibility being an ideal-theoretic concept and projectivity a module-theoretic concept.
A primary reference for the ideal-theoretic topics presented here is Gilmer’s influential book Multiplicative Ideal Theory (now available in three editions [Gil68], [Gil72], [Gil92]); for example, one finds there subject headings for invertible ideas, cancellation ideals, almost Dedekind domains, etc. On the other hand, the notion of projective and its offshoots are best pursued in Bourbaki.
My thanks to W. Heinzer for his comments and encouragement.
Jack Ohm
Holomorphy rings of function fields
Bruce Olberding
The minimal number of generators of an invertible ideal
Bruce Olberding, Moshe Roitman
About minimal morphisms
Gabriel Picavet, Martine Picavet-L’Hermitte
What v-coprimality can do for you
Muhammad Zafrullah
Some questions for further research
Robert Gilmer
Robert Gilmer’s published works
Commutative Algebra at Florida State 1963–1968
Jim Brewer, Bill Heinzer
Backmatter
Metadaten
Titel
Multiplicative Ideal Theory in Commutative Algebra
herausgegeben von
James W. Brewer
Sarah Glaz
William J. Heinzer
Bruce M. Olberding
Copyright-Jahr
2006
Verlag
Springer US
Electronic ISBN
978-0-387-36717-0
Print ISBN
978-0-387-24600-0
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-36717-0