Proprietes et applications de la notion de contenu

The notion of content is used to solve certain problems. In the first part, we show that the structural morphism of a content algebra (see the paper of D.E. Rush [22] ) is spectrally open, under mild hypothesis. We show also that a flat module is universally content if and only if it is a Mittag-Leffler’s module in the sense of f2ll . In the second part, using content, we exhibit a kind of localization of a commutative ring A, attached to eyery subset X of Spec(A) i.e. a flat morphism A→ X(A). We can thus show that every quasi-compact, stable under generization subset of a spectra is a spectral image under a flat morphism, in a canonical way. We can also give in certain cases an elementary construction of the maximal flat injective epimor-phism of a ring. Suppose that A is a Noetherian ring and consider pro-perties of Noetherian rings such as factoriality, normality and so on.

Let X be the set of prime ideals of A at which A has the property. If X is stable under generization, the flat morphism A→ X(A) verifies hin general the ring X(A) has lornlly the property and a prime ideal P of A has a prime ideal lying over in X(A) if and only if pthe ring has the property at P.