Ideal with prime radical

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Definition

An ideal in a commutative unital ring is said to have prime radical if its radical is a prime ideal.

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Relation with other properties

Stronger properties

Property Meaning Proof of implication Proof of strictness (reverse implication failure) Intermediate notions
prime ideal product of two elements in the ideal implies at least one of them is in the ideal follows from the fact that prime implies radical, so a prime ideal equals its own radical prime radical not implies prime click here
primary ideal product of two elements in the ideal implies either the first or a power of the second is in the ideal primary implies prime radical prime radical not implies primary click here
power of a prime ideal product of a prime ideal with itself finitely many times
ideal with maximal radical radical is a maximal ideal