Conditions for :
Let be a multiplicative subset of a commutative ring
with identity and let
be an ideal of
. Then
if and only if
.
Proof
(H pg 146)
Assume
. Consider the ring homomorphism
given by
(for any
). Then
hence
for some
,
. Since
, we have
for some
, i.e.\
. But
and
imply
.
If
, then
. Note that for any
,
since
and
. Thus
.