A note on the structure of distributive rings (Q1383573)

The possibilities to represent the prime distributive rings as special pullbacks of suitable rings are studied. One of the main results is the following. Let \(R\) be a ring having a completely prime ideal \(Q\) contained in \(J(R)\). Then \(R\) is a prime distributive ring if and only if there exists a prime chain ring \(T\) containing \(R\) and having \(Q\) as its maximal ideal and a distributive domain \(D\), whose skew field of fractions equals \(T/Q\), such that \(R\) is the pullback \(\pi^{-1}(D)\), where \(\pi\colon T\to T/Q\) is canonical.