I am an arithmetic geometry graduate student, and I find myself needing to learn about factorisation in orders in division algebras. I know something aout algebraic number theory and commutative algebra, but very little about noncommutative rings. Let $R$ be a Dedekind domain and $K$ its field of fractions. The following is Theorem 22.15 from Reiner's _Maximal Orders_: > **Theorem.** For each maximal left ideal $M$ of a maximal $R$-order $\Lambda$ in a separable $K$-algebra $A$, there is a unique prime (2-sided) ideal $\mathfrak{P}$ of $\Lambda$ such that > >> $\mathfrak{P} \subset M \subset \Lambda$ and $\mathfrak{P} = \operatorname{ann}_\Lambda \Lambda/M = \{ x \in \Lambda | x\Lambda \subset M \}.$ > > We say that $M$ _belongs_ to $\mathfrak{P}$. Then $\Lambda/M$ is a simple left module over the simple ring $\Lambda/\mathfrak{P}$. Conversely, each $\mathfrak{P}$ determines a maximal left ideal $M$ of $\Lambda$ which belongs to $\mathfrak{P}$. In the last sentence, the word "determines" suggests to me that the ideal $M$ belonging to $\mathfrak{P}$ should be unique, but I would also expect the word "unique" to appear in the statement of the theorem. The proof gives only the existence of such an $M$. Indeed I think that the ideal need not be unique: let $M$ be a maximal left $\Lambda$-ideal belonging to $\mathfrak{P}$ with right order $\Lambda' \neq \Lambda$. If $u$ is a unit of $\Lambda$ not in $\Lambda'$, then $uMu^{-1}$ is a maximal left $\Lambda$-ideal belonging to $\mathfrak{P}$ and distinct from $M$. Is this the only way in which uniqueness can fail? That is: > Let $\mathfrak{P}$ be a prime ideal of $\Lambda$ and $M$, $M'$ maximal left $\Lambda$-ideals belonging to $\mathfrak{P}$. Is there a unit $u$ of $\Lambda$ such that $M' = uMu^{-1}$ ?