Is a R a maximal deal

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Lot R by
with unity.
a
commutative ring
Transcribed Image Text:Lot R by with unity. a commutative ring
Is a R
a maximal deal
Transcribed Image Text:Is a R a maximal deal
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No, it is not necessarily true that aR is a maximal ideal in a commutative ring R with unity.

 In general, a maximal ideal M of a ring R is an ideal such that there 

are no proper ideals in R that properly contain M, except for R itself. 


In other words,

M is maximal among all proper ideals of R. However, the ideal aR, 

 where a is any nonzero element of R, is not necessarily a maximal ideal. 

It is true that aR is always a proper ideal (it cannot be equal to the whole ring R), but it may or may not be maximal.

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