Generating ideals up to projective equivalence

Generating ideals up to projective equivalence
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 120 (1994), 79-83 Request permission

It is shown that every ideal in a commutative Noetherian ring of dimension $d$ is projectively equivalent to an ideal having $d + 1$ generators.

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