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Radical equality for finitely generated integer algebras (Jac(R)=(0)​)

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For a finite-type integer algebra, a nonnilpotent element r gives a nonzero localization of a ring R[1/r]. A maximal ideal there has finite residue field by the finite-field theorem for finitely generated integer algebras. The image of R in that field is a finite integral domain, hence a field. Its kernel is therefore maximal in R and avoids r. Nilpotents lie in every maximal ideal, proving the radical equality. Applying the same argument to every prime quotient shows that these algebras are Jacobson rings. Merely contracting a localized maximal ideal without the finite-image argument would not prove maximality.

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