Local ring
This article defines a property of commutative unital rings; a property that can be evaluated for a commutative unital ring
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This property of commutative unital rings is completely determined by the spectrum, viewed as an abstract topological space. The corresponding property of topological spaces is: topological space with exactly one closed point
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Definition
Symbol-free definition
A commutative unital ring is termed a local ring if it satisfies the following equivalent conditions:
- It has a unique maximal ideal
- There is exactly one homomorphism from the commutative unital ring whose image is a field
- There is exactly one closed point in the spectrum (corresponding to the unique maximal ideal)
Definition with symbols
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Definition for noncommutative rings
Further information: Local ring (noncommutative rings)