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A generalized Dedekind-Mertens lemma and its converse

Author(s): Alberto Corso; William Heinzer; Craig Huneke
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 350 (1998), 5095-5109.
MSC (1991): Primary 13A15; Secondary 13B25, 13G05, 13H10
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Abstract: We study content ideals of polynomials and their behavior under multiplication. We give a generalization of the Lemma of Dedekind-Mertens and prove the converse under suitable dimensionality restrictions.


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Additional Information:

Alberto Corso
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906
Address at time of publication: Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
Email: corso@math.msu.edu

William Heinzer
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906
Email: heinzer@math.purdue.edu

Craig Huneke
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906
Email: huneke@math.purdue.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-98-02176-X
PII: S 0002-9947(98)02176-X
Keywords: Content ideal of a polynomial, integral closure of an ideal, Dedekind--Mertens Lemma, Dedekind--Mertens number
Received by editor(s): February 10, 1997
Additional Notes: The authors gratefully acknowledge partial support from the NSF
Dedicated: To Wolmer V. Vasconcelos on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday
Copyright of article: Copyright 1998, American Mathematical Society


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