Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2025/iii/paper-101/5/ii/solution

Choose . Since the one-dimensional local domain has no nonzero prime ideal other than , one has . Finite generation of therefore gives some with . Choose minimal and
In the fraction field of , put . Then but
If , multiplication by would preserve the nonzero finitely generated faithful -module . The determinant trick would make integral over , contradicting that is integrally closed and . Hence some satisfies . Since and is local, is a unit.
For any , one has , and therefore
Thus , while the reverse inclusion follows from . Consequently
This proves the principal maximal ideal in a one-dimensional normal local domain result.
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