Local dimensions of rings (Q795106)

In this paper the author studies the openness and continuity of the map \(g:Spec R\to {\mathbb{N}}\cup \{\infty \},\) where R is a commutative ring with 1\(\neq 0\), Spec R has the Zariski topology and for the set of integers \({\mathbb{N}}\), \({\mathbb{N}}\cup \{\infty \}\) is equipped with the topology \(\{\emptyset,{\mathbb{N}}\cup \{\infty \},\quad \{0\}\quad \{0,1\},\{0,1,2\},...,\{0,1,2,...,n\}\}.\) He shows in particular that for Noetherian rings, the openness and continuity of the map g are equivalent to the familiar notions of regularity and G-domain respectively. (G- domain is a domain in which \(\cap p_ i\neq 0,\) for all prime ideals \(p_ i\neq 0\) of G.)