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Every prime ideal of a product ring comes from one factor
Example
Let and be commutative rings. Then the prime ideals of are exactly the ideals of the form with and the ideals of the form with .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Commutative rings and .
A prime ideal is proper and absorbs factors of a product (Prime ideals and maximal ideals in a commutative ring).
Verification
Let . The idempotents and satisfy , so [L1] gives or . They cannot both lie in because then . If , then every lies in , so where . The same argument with gives the alternative form . In either case the factor ideal is prime because products in the factor ring are products in .
Conversely, if , then is a prime ideal of : if , then , so [L1] gives or , which means or lies in . The same proof works for .
Therefore every prime ideal of the product ring comes from exactly one factor.
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Sources
- The Stacks Project, Section 10.17: The spectrum of a ring (standard reference, not scraped)
- A. Altman and S. Kleiman, A Term of Commutative Algebra, 13th ed., §13 and §17 (standard reference, not scraped)