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Atlas.AlgebraicGeometryI.code.Lec4NoetherianDecomp

Lecture 4, Proposition 5: a Noetherian topological space has finitely many irreducible components, whose union is the whole space.

Existential form of Proposition 5: a Noetherian topological space admits some finite covering by closed irreducible subsets.

The vanishing ideal of a finite union of subsets of Spec R is the infimum of the individual vanishing ideals.

theorem radical_ideal_eq_finite_iInf_primes {R : Type u_1} [CommRing R] [IsNoetherianRing R] (I : Ideal R) (hI : I.IsRadical) :
∃ (S : Finset (Ideal R)), (∀ PS, P.IsPrime) I = S.inf id

Ring-theoretic consequence of Proposition 5: in a Noetherian ring, every radical ideal is a finite intersection of primes.

A closed subset of Spec R is irreducible iff its vanishing ideal is prime.