A property of ideals in polynomial rings

A property of ideals in polynomial rings
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 98 (1986), 399-400 Request permission

Every ideal in the polynomial ring in $n$ variables over an infinite field has a reduction generated by $n$ elements.

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