Integral domain

cosmos 22nd October 2017 at 12:56am
Commutative ring

Def. A unital Commutative ring without Zero divisors is called an integral domain

Remark (Cancelation property). In an integral domain, we can cancel factors in products, like in Groups.

Z6\mathbb{Z}_6 (integers modulo 66) is not an integral domain.

If pp is a Prime number, Zp\mathbb{Z}_p is an integral domain.