Non-integrally closed Kronecker function rings and integral domains with a unique minimal overring (Q6594141)

Let \(D\) be a local, integrally closed integral domain with maximal ideal and quotient field. Usually, \(D\) can be expressed as the intersection of its valuation overrings. Unfortunately, in case where \(D\) is not a Prüfer domain, most of the valuation overrings of \(D\) are not viewable as localizations of \(D\). To overcome this difficulty, the Kronecker function ring of \(D\) is a classical construction of a Prüfer domain which serves as an overring of \(D[t]\). Its localizations at prime ideals are of the form \(V(t)\), where \(V\) range over the valuation overrings of \(D\). This approach can be extended to arbitrary integral domains by expressing them as intersections of overrings that admit a unique minimal overring. This generalization allows one to handle cases where \(D\) is not necessarily integrally closed. In essence, this broadens the applicability of the Kronecker function ring construction.\N\NMotivated by the above idea, the article in review, studies rings that admit a unique minimal overring, and explores the concept of ``maximal excluding domains'' as a generalization of valuation rings to describe valuation overrings. Here, a maximal excluding domain is an overring of a non-integrally closed domain \(D\) that is maximal with respect to not containing a specific element from the quotient field of \(D\). With his approach, the article extends the concept of the Kronecker function ring to the non-integrally closed setting by utilising intersections of Nagata rings of the form \(A(t)\), where \(A\) is an integral domain with a unique minimal overring.