Infinite prime avoidance

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Abstract: We investigate prime avoidance for an arbitrary set of prime ideals in a commutative ring. Various necessary and/or sufficient conditions for prime avoidance are given, which yield natural classes of infinite sets of primes that satisfy prime avoidance. Examples and counterexamples are given throughout to illustrate the phenomena that can occur. As an application, we show how to use prime avoidance to construct counterexamples among rings essentially of finite type.


Let \(R\) be a ring, and let \(\Lambda\) be a subset of the set of all prime ideals of \(R\). The set \(\Lambda\) satisfies prime avoidance if whenever \(I\subseteq \bigcup_{\mathfrak{p}\in \Lambda}\mathfrak{p}\) for some ideal \(I\) of \(R\), then \(I\subseteq \mathfrak{p}\) for some \(\mathfrak{p}\in \Lambda\). The author investigates prime avoidance for arbitrary set of prime ideals in a commutative ring, and establishes conditions under which prime avoidance is satisfied. Several examples and counterexamples are constructed to illustrate the prime avoidance phenomena.











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