On nn-irreducible ideals of commutative rings
Abstract
Let R be a commutative ring with 1≠0 and n a positive integer. The main purpose of this paper is to study the concepts of n-irreducible and strongly n-irreducible ideals which are generalizations of irreducible and strongly irreducible ideals, respectively. A proper ideal I of R is called n-irreducible (respectively, strongly n-irreducible) if for each ideals I1,…,In+1 of R, I=I1∩⋯∩In+1 (respectively, I1∩⋯∩In+1⊆I) implies that there are n of the Ii’s whose intersection is I (respectively, whose intersection is in I).
Communicated by A. Facchini