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Radical ideals and closed subsets of the maximal spectrum (I↔V(I)∩MaxSpecA)

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For a finitely generated algebra over an algebraically closed field k, radical ideals correspond, with inclusion reversed, to closed subsets of the maximal spectrum. If f∈/I​, the nonzero algebra (A/I)[1/f] is still finitely generated over k. Its maximal residue field is k by the Zariski lemma, so contracting a maximal ideal gives a maximal ideal of A containing I and avoiding f. Hence the intersection of all maximal ideals containing I is I​. This proves the inverse correspondence, including the empty closed set and unit ideal.

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