Computing the closure of a support

When $E$ is an $R$-module over a commutative unital ring $R$, the Zariski closure of its support is of the form $\mathrm V(\mathcal O(E))$ where $\mathcal O(E)$ is a unique radical ideal. We give an explicit form of $\mathcal O(E)$ and study its behavior under various operations of algebra. Applications are given, in particular for ring extensions of commutative unital rings whose supports are closed. We provide some applications to crucial and critical ideals of ring extensions

Distributive FCP extensions

We are dealing with extensions of commutative rings $R\subseteq S$ whose chains of the poset $[R,S]$ of their subextensions are finite ({\em i.e.} $R\subseteq S$ has the FCP property) and such that $[R,S]$ is a distributive lattice, that we call distributive FCP extensions. Note that the lattice $[R,S]$ of a distributive FCP extension is finite. This paper is the continuation of our earlier papers where we studied catenarian and Boolean extensions. Actually, for an FCP extension, the following implications hold: Boolean $\Rightarrow$ distributive $\Rightarrow$ catenarian. A comprehensive characterization of distributive FCP extensions actually remains a challenge, essentially because the same problem for field extensions is not completely solved. Nevertheless, we are able to exhibit a lot of positive results for some classes of extensions. A main result is that an FCP extension $R\subseteq S$ is distributive if and only if $R\subseteq\overline R$ is distributive, where $\overline R$ is the integral closure of $R$ in $S$. A special attention is paid to distributive field extensions