Effect of ideal contraction on Galois correspondent
This fact is an application of the following pivotal fact/result/idea: nilradical of subring lemma
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Statement
Suppose is a homomorphism of commutative unital rings, and is an ideal of . Suppose denotes the subset of comprising the prime ideals which contain (the Galois correspondent to under the Galois correspondence between a ring and its spectrum). Then:
An analogous statement is true for the max-spectrum, if we assume that both and are Jacobson rings. This is to equate the Jacobson radical with the nilradical for every quotient ring.