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Annihilator of an element in a ring

Your question has been answered by LSpice, but in case you wonder about similar questions in the future, there is a sizable body of work on zero-divisor graphs of commutative rings.
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Examples of one-dimensional non-Cohen Macaulay rings

In dimension $1$, Cohen-Macaulay just mean unmixed, so all the associated primes have the same dimension. Thus the easiest way to cook up a non-CM ring of dimension $1$ is: Pick your favorite regular …
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$K_{0}(R) =\mathbb{Z}$ but some f.g. projective not stably free?

Under the mild condition that the rank of a free module is an invariant, the free modules form a monoid isomorphic to $\mathbb N$. This induces an injection: $$f: \mathbb Z \to K_0(R) $$ Then every …
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Locally square implies square

I would try something like this: $R=\mathbb C[x,y,u,v]/(f,g)$ with $f=x(y-u^2)$ and $g=(1+x)(y-v^2)$ When you localize at any prime ideal, you have to invert either $x$ or $1+x$. Either way, $y$ beco …
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Upper bound to the number of generators

Understanding the number of generators is a very subtle problem. I will focus on your second question on ideals, since the first one is a bit broad. By a theorem of Foster-Swan, the problem is local. …
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The first female algebraist in US/Britain?

Recently I dug up some biographical details of Lindsay Burch, of Hilbert-Burch Theorem fame, whose few papers have had quite an impact on commutative algebra. This made me curious about the first wome …
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Depth Zero Ideals in the Homogenized Weyl Algebra

I am not sure I understand the analogue correctly, but in the commutative case, one can get to depth zero with 3 generators. That is because any second syzygy of a module of depth at least $1$ is isom …
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Global dimensions of orders over non-Gorenstein centers

This question concerns the following Lemma 4.2 in this paper by Van den Bergh: Lemma: Let $R$ be local, normal Gorenstein ring of dimension $d$. Suppose $M$ is a reflexive $R$ module such that $A=\te …
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Maximal Ideals in Formal Laurent Series Rings?

Your ring $L$ is a localization of the power series rings $R= k[[x_1,\cdots,x_n]]$ at the multiplicative set $M$ of monomials in $R$. So the prime ideals of $L$ correspond to prime ideals in $R$ whi …
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Dimension 1 prime ideals in the intersection of two maximal ideals

This reminds me of what someone once said to me: The geometers can always take a hyperplane section. We can't! The purpose of this post is to analyze the question to see how close it is to Bert …
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The first female algebraist in US/Britain?

I followed the reference suggested by KConrad in the comments and found perhaps the answer to Question 1: Annie MacKinnon, who got her PhD from Cornell in 1894 with the thesis "Concomitant Binary Form …
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Can a module be an extension in two really different ways?

It is worth noting some very interesting cases when the answer is yes. An amazing result by Miyata states that if $R$ is Noetherian and commutative, $M,N$ are finitely generated and $E \cong M\oplus …
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Square of primary ideals

What a fun problem for the holiday season! Yes, an example is $R=\mathbb C[a,b,c,d]/(a^4-bd, b^3-cd, c^2-ad, a^3b^2c-d^3) \cong \mathbb C[t^9,t^{13},t^{16},t^{23}]$. Let $I=(a,b,c)$ and $P=(a,b,c,d)$ …
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Familiar equations in more general settings

Your question reminds me of the following quote from my advisor, which I can't resist posting here: "Finally I want to remark that the treatment of big Cohen-Macaulay modules here serves as a remind …
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A geometric reference for (affine) Gorenstein varieties and singularities

Sorry, tough luck, but most first (and second) algebraic geometry courses don't even touch Cohen-Macaulay rings, let alone Gorenstein. Look, for example, at Definition 4.2 here. So it is unlikely you …
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