Integrally closed subring
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This article defines a property that can be evaluated for a unital subring in a commutative unital ring: given any commutative unital ring and a subring thereof, the property is either true or false for the pair
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Definition
Symbol-free definition
A unital subring of a commutative unital ring is said to be integrally closed in the ring if any element of the ring integral over the subring (i.e. satisfying a monic polynomial over the subring) must lie inside the subring itself.
Related notions
Related ring properties
- Normal ring is a ring that is integrally closed in its total quotient ring
- Normal domain is an integral domain that is integrally closed in its field of fractions
