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Atlas.AlgebraicGeometryI.code.Hauptidealsatz

For a nonzero element g of a domain R, the Krull dimension drops by at most one when passing to the quotient R/(g).

theorem Hauptidealsatz.height_eq_one_of_mem_minimalPrimes_principal {R : Type u_1} [CommRing R] [IsDomain R] [IsNoetherianRing R] (g : R) (hg : g 0) (_hg_unit : ¬IsUnit g) (p : Ideal R) [p.IsPrime] (hp : p (Ideal.span {g}).minimalPrimes) :
p.height = 1

Krull's Hauptidealsatz (Thm 5.4, Lec 5): In a Noetherian domain R, every minimal prime over a nonzero non-unit principal ideal (g) has height exactly one. Geometrically, each irreducible component of the zero locus Z(g) has codimension one.