Abstract

If I and J are two ideals in a ring R, we call I a zJ-ideal if Ma ∩ J ⊆ I, ∀ a ∈ I, where Ma is the intersection of all maximal ideals containing a. Whenever J ⊈ I and I is a zJ-ideal, we say that I is a relative z-ideal or briefly a rez-ideal, and we call J a z-factor of I. If I is an ideal in a semisimple ring and Ann(I) ≠ (0), we have shown that I is a rez-ideal and the converse is also true for each finitely generated ideal in C(X). Small and large rez-ideals and z-factors are investigated and the largest z-factor of a given semiprime ideal and maximal zJ-ideals for a given ideal J are obtained. Minimal z-factors of a given ideal in a reduced ring are also characterized and it turns out that minimal z-factors of a given ideal I in C(X) are precisely the minimal ideals of C(X) which are not contained in I. Finally, we show that the space X is an F-space if and only if the sum of every rez-ideal and every convex ideal in C(X) is convex, and spaces X for which the intersection of every two semiprime rez-ideals in C(X) is a rez-ideal are characterized.

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