How do you lift prime ideals from a quotient ring back to the original ring?
Conditions
- is the original ring.
- is an ideal in .
- The irreducible factors of have been found in the quotient ring.
Reasoning, step by step
- Identify the prime ideals in the quotient ring , which are generated by the irreducible factors of .
- Lift these ideals to by including the generator of (which is 3) along with the irreducible factors.
- State the final prime ideals in as .
Example
The narrator states, 'The prime ideals in R that contain are generated by the image of 3 and each of our irreducible factors. The generators are: 3 and x-1, 3 and , 3 and x squared plus 2x plus 2.'
Common misconceptions
- Forgetting to include the generator of the ideal when lifting back to .
- Assuming the ideals in are identical to the ideals in without the lifting process.
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