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Jan 9, 2013 at 6:41 comment added Kevin Casto hm - I remember being given this as a homework problem, and given the way it's stated it certainly smells like one...
Jan 8, 2013 at 23:41 vote accept Antonio
Jan 8, 2013 at 20:52 comment added Karl Schwede Is $R$ a local ring?
Jan 8, 2013 at 19:01 comment added LMN Well, you need some hypothesis since completion only sees things locally. (Take the disjoint union of two lines $R = k[x] \times k[y]$ and complete wrt a maximal ideal on one of the lines but not the other).
Jan 8, 2013 at 19:00 answer added David E Speyer timeline score: 6
Jan 8, 2013 at 18:40 history asked Antonio CC BY-SA 3.0