Almost Dedekind domains without radical factorization

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Abstract: We study almost Dedekind domains with respect to the failure of ideals to have radical factorization, that is, we study how to measure how far an almost Dedekind domain is from being an SP-domain. To do so, we consider the maximal space mathcalM=mathrmMax(R) of an almost Dedekind domain R, interpreting its (fractional) ideals as maps from mathcalM to mathbbZ, and looking at the continuity of these maps when mathcalM is endowed with the inverse topology and mathbbZ with the discrete topology. We generalize the concept of critical ideals by introducing a well-ordered chain of closed subsets of mathcalM (of which the set of critical ideals is the first step) and use it to define the class of emph{SP-scattered domains}, which includes the almost Dedekind domains such that mathcalM is scattered and, in particular, the almost Dedekind domains such that mathcalM is countable. We show that for this class of rings the group mathrmInv(R) is free by expressing it as a direct sum of groups of continuous maps, and that, for every length function ell on R and every ideal I of R, the length of R/I is equal to the length of R/mathrmrad(I).














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