Algebraic properties of rings of continuous functions
Tom 149 / 1996
Fundamenta Mathematicae 149 (1996), 55-66
DOI: 10.4064/fm-149-1-55-66
Streszczenie
This paper is devoted to the study of algebraic properties of rings of continuous functions. Our aim is to show that these rings, even if they are highly non-noetherian, have properties quite similar to the elementary properties of noetherian rings: we give going-up and going-down theorems, a characterization of z-ideals and of primary ideals having as radical a maximal ideal and a flatness criterion which is entirely analogous to the one for modules over principal ideal domains.