Tuesday, 4 January 2011

fa.functional analysis - prime ideals in C([0,1])

It is clear that each maximal ideal in ring of continuous functions over [0,1]subsetmathbbR corresponds to a point and vice-versa.



So, for each ideal I define Z(I)= {xin[0,1] | f(x)=0,forallfinI}. But map ItoZ(I) from ideals to closed sets isn't injection! (Consider ideal J(x0)={f|f(x)=0,forallxin some closed interval which contains x0})



How can we describe ideals in C([0,1])? Is it true that prime ideal is maximal for this ring?

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