Re: Question about the homework

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William Stein

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Nov 15, 2012, 3:27:03 PM11/15/12
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On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Reid Dale <reidr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Professor,
>
> For problem 1, can we suppose that the fraction field of our Dedekind domain
> K is a number field?

Yes. I meant to write "O_K be the ring of integers of a number field"
not "...of a Dedekind domain", which makes no sense!

> If not, our proof from class that O_K is noetherian
> fails, and in characteristic p we wouldn't be able to localize O_K along the
> multiplicative system {p,p^2, ...}, which is bad.
>
> -Reid



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