Definition

Let BB be a . A kk-ideal of BB is a subset IBI\subseteq B^\bullet such that:

  1. 0I0\in I;
  2. BIIBI\subseteq I;
  3. whenever an additive relation
    i=1nai+cj=1mbj\sum_{i=1}^{n}a_i+c\equiv\sum_{j=1}^{m}b_j
    holds in BB, with every ai,bjIa_i,b_j\in I, then cIc\in I.

The third axiom is the subtractive condition. For a blueprint induced by a semiring, it specializes to the usual condition that x,x+yIx,x+y\in I implies yIy\in I.

A proper kk-ideal p\mathfrak p is prime if its complement BpB^\bullet\setminus\mathfrak p is multiplicatively closed. These prime kk-ideals are the points of the .

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