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Ideals of S1R correspond to S-saturated ideals of R, and prime ideals correspond to primes disjoint from S

Statement

Let R be a commutative ring and SR multiplicative. For an ideal IR, write S1I={r/s:rI, sS},Isat={rR:srI for some sS}. An ideal is S-saturated when I=Isat. Extension IS1I and contraction JλS1(J) give inverse inclusion-preserving bijections between S-saturated ideals of R and ideals of S1R. Moreover, they restrict to inverse bijections {pSpecR:pS=}Spec(S1R),pS1p.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: A commutative ring R, a multiplicative subset S, and the localisation map λS.

[F1]

Localisation has the usual fraction arithmetic, equality is detected by a witness in S, and every s/1 is a unit (The localisation relation is an equivalence relation and fraction arithmetic is well defined, Equality, vanishing, and the kernel of the localisation map).

[F2]

Ideals are additive subgroups absorbing multiplication; a prime ideal is proper and contains one factor whenever it contains a product (Left, right and two-sided ideals, Prime ideals and maximal ideals in a commutative ring).

[L1]

Each ideal of S1R is S1I for its inverse-image ideal I in R (The Stacks Project, Lemma 10.9.16).

[L2]

The map RS1R induces a bijection from the prime ideals of S1R to the prime ideals of R disjoint from S, with inverse pS1p (The Stacks Project, Lemma 10.17.5).

Proof

technique · direct extension and contraction
1.1

The displayed S1I is an ideal: common-denominator addition preserves numerator membership in I, and multiplication by an arbitrary fraction does likewise. It is also the ideal generated by the elements i/1 with iI, since i/s=(i/1)(1/s).

F1F2
1.2

For completeness, let p be prime and disjoint from S. It is saturated, since srp with sp forces rp. Its extension is proper: 1=i/s with ip would give u(si)=0, hence us=uip, contradicting u,sS.

F1F2
2.1

An element r lies in the contraction of S1I exactly when r/1=i/s for some iI. Equality gives u(rsi)=0, hence (us)r=uiI, so rIsat. Conversely, if trI for tS, then r/1=tr/tS1I. Thus the contraction is exactly Isat.

F1step 1.1
3.1

If JS1R is an ideal and I=λS1(J), then r/sJ implies r/1=(s/1)(r/s)J, while r/1J implies r/s=(1/s)(r/1)J. Hence J=S1I, as in [L1]. Step 2.1 also makes I saturated.

F1F2L1
3.2

If (a/s)(b/t)S1p, contraction and saturation give uabp for some uS. Since up, primality gives ap or bp, so one factor lies in S1p. Thus the extension is prime.

F1F2step 2.1step 1.2
4.1

Steps 2.1 and 3.1 prove that extension and contraction are inverse on the stated ideals. Both operations visibly preserve inclusion.

step 2.1step 3.1
5.1

Conversely, the contraction qc of a prime qS1R is proper because 1/1q. If abqc, then (a/1)(b/1)q, so primality gives aqc or bqc. It also misses S, because each s/1 is a unit and no proper ideal contains a unit. Together with steps 3.2 and 4.1, this proves the prime bijection stated in [L2].

F1F2L2step 3.2step 4.1

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