Prime ideals between a three-prime chain

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Prime ideals between a three-prime chain by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
If is Noetherian and are prime ideals, there are infinitely many primes strictly between and . After quotienting by and localizing at , this reduces to a local Noetherian domain of dimension at least two. If it had only finitely many height-one primes, prime avoidance would give a nonzero element of the maximal ideal outside all of them, contradicting the Krull principal ideal theorem.

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