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Contraction of a maximal ideal under an integral extension

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If A⊆B is integral and n is a maximal ideal of B, then n∩A is maximal in A. Indeed, B/n is an integral domain integral over A/(n∩A), and a subring over which a field is integral is itself a field.

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