Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2022/iii/paper-101/3/c/solution

Pass to the graded domain and let . This is a nonzero prime containing no nonzero homogeneous element. Localize at the multiplicative set of all nonzero homogeneous elements. Every nonzero homogeneous element of is a unit; its nonzero graded pieces are one-dimensional over the degree-zero field, so after reindexing degrees this localization is a Laurent polynomial ring . The extended prime is therefore a nonzero prime of height one.
Any prime strictly between and would remain a nonzero prime strictly below it after localization, impossible in . Contracting back proves that no prime lies strictly between and . The graded height theorem, equivalently the same localization argument applied to saturated chains, then gives

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