Regular ring
This is not to be confused with von-Neumann regular 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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Definition
A Noetherian ring is termed a regular ring if its localization at any prime ideal is a regular local ring.
Relation with other properties
Stronger properties
Weaker properties
- Cohen-Macaulay ring:For proof of the implication, refer Regular implies Cohen-Macaulay and for proof of its strictness (i.e. the reverse implication being false) refer Cohen-Macaulay not implies regular
- Universally catenary ring
- Catenary ring
- Noetherian ring
Spectrum
The spectrum of a regular ring has the fairly strong property that every connected component is irreducible. Thus, any regular ring is a direct product of integral domains. If we localize at a point, it should be an integral domain.