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Unique minimal prime does not imply primary

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In k[u,v], the ideal I=(u2,uv) has radical of an ideal (u), a prime ideal, and hence a unique minimal prime ideal. Nevertheless uv∈I, u∈/I, and vj∈/I for all j≥1, so I is not a primary ideal. The same example works after adjoining inverses of 1+u and 1+v; thus it also gives an example in a two-variable Laurent polynomial ring.

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