Finite character of finitely stable domains (Q531317)

The notion of stable ideals plays an important role for arbitrary commutative rings. An ideal of a commutative ring is \textit{stable} if it is projective over its endomorphism ring and a commutative ring is said to be \textit{stable (finitely stable)} if every regular (finitely generated) ideal is stable. In particular Olberding proved that a stable commutative domain is of finite character, that is every nonzero ideal is contained in at most a finite number of maximal ideals; and Rush proved that the integral closure of a finitely stable domain is a Prüfer domain. A commutative domain satisfies the \textit{local stability property} provided that every locally stable ideal is stable. In the paper under review the author prove that a finitely stable domain satisfies the local stability property if and only if it has finite character. As a corollary of this result is to give an affirmative answer to the question that, whether every Clifford regular domain is of finite character. Recall that an integral domain \(R\) is said to be \textit{Clifford regular} if the semigroup \(S(R)\) of the isomorphism classes of nonzero fractional ideals of \(R\) is a Clifford semigroup, that is every element of \(S(R)\) is von Neumann regular.