Almost Multiplication Rings

Abstract

It is well known that an idealAin a. Dedekind domain has a prime radical if and only ifAis a power of a prime ideal. The purpose of this paper is to determine necessary and sufficient conditions in order that a commutative ring with unit element have this property and to study the ideal theory in such rings. Domains with unit element having the above property possess many of the characteristics of Dedekind domains (however, they need not be Noetherian) and will be referred to in this paper as "almost Dedekind domains"—these domains are considered in Section 1.