Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2018/ii/paper-1/25i/b/solution

Use the Rabinowitsch trick. In the polynomial ring , consider
If were proper, it would lie in a maximal ideal. Part (a), together with algebraic closedness of , is the Weak Hilbert Nullstellensatz, so that maximal ideal would be evaluation at a point . We would then have
But the hypothesis gives , a contradiction. Therefore is the unit ideal.
There are polynomials and such that
Substitute in the localization . This gives ; clearing a power of yields
This is the Strong Hilbert Nullstellensatz inclusion .

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