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On the Criteria of D.D. Anderson for Invertible and Flat Ideals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

David E. Dobbs
David E. Dobbs*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of TennesseeKnoxville, Tennessee 37996, U.S.A.
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Abstract

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Let R be an integral domain. It is proved that if a nonzero ideal I of R can be generated by n < ∞ elements, then I is invertible (i.e., flat) if and only if I(∩ Rai) = ∩ Iai for all { a1, . . ., a n﹜ ⊂ I. The article's main focus is on torsion-free R-modules E which are LCM-stable in the sense that E(Ra ∩ Rb) = Ea ∩ Eb for all a, b ∈ R. By means of linear relations, LCM-stableness is shown to be equivalent to a weak aspect of flatness. Consequently, if each finitely generated ideal of R may be 2-generated, then each LCM-stable R-module is flat. Finally, LCM-stableness of maximal ideals serves to characterize Prüfer domains, Dedekind domains, principal ideal domains, and Bézout domains amongst suitably larger classes of integral domains.

Keywords

primary 13C1113F05secondary 13G0513F1513E0518G15
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , 01 March 1986 , pp. 25 - 32
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1986

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