Solution

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For pairwise comaximal ideals of , reduction gives the Chinese remainder theorem for ideals:
Its kernel is . For two comaximal ideals, write with , . If , then , showing . Induction gives the product formula: a product of ideals individually comaximal with is still comaximal with , by multiplying identities modulo .
Put . Since , choose with . The element has any prescribed residues , proving surjectivity. Its residue class modulo the product is unique because we already identified the kernel. In a Dedekind domain, powers of distinct nonzero prime ideals are pairwise comaximal, giving the prime-power form. The theorem requires comaximality; it is not a statement about arbitrary lists of ideals.

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