Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
The first note gives two new characterization of the ideal-transform T(I) of a finitely generated regular ideal I in a large class of rings. Specifically, if b is a regular element in I, then there exists a regular element c ∈ I and a multiplicatively closed set S of regular elements in R such that T(I) = T((b, c)R) = Rb ∩ Rc = Rb ∩ Rs, so T(I) is the ideal-transform of an ideal generated by two elements, and every ring of the form Rb ∩ Rs is an ideal-transform. The second theorem shows that if T(I) is integrally closed, then it is a Krull ring. As an application of these results we strengthen some known results concerning when certain ideal-transforms of the Rees ring R(R, I) are finite or integral extension rings of R(R, I).