Skip to main content
2 of 2
deleted 49 characters in body
user26857
  • 1.3k
  • 14
  • 30

Are there irreducible ideals that are not primary in $K[X_1,\dots,X_n,\dots]$?

I can give examples of non-noetherian rings having irreducible ideals that are not primary. Among them there are idealizations and valuation domains. But the first non-noetherian ring we are thinking about is $K[X_1,\dots,X_n,\dots]$, $K$ a field. The finitely generated ideals of this ring have primary decomposition, so if they are irreducible then are necessarily primary.

My question is the following:

Are there irreducible ideals that are not primary in $K[X_1,\dots,X_n,\dots]$?

user26857
  • 1.3k
  • 14
  • 30