Going up theorem

From Commalg

Statement

This result is sometimes called going up and sometimes lying over and going up. It is a stronger version of lying over.

Suppose is an injective homomorphism of commutative unital rings, such that is an integral extension of . Suppose is a prime ideal of , and is an ideal of such that . Then, there exists a prime ideal containing , such that .

Proof

This follows from lying over, applied to the injective map .