Lemmas on idempotent finitely generated ideals #
theorem
Ideal.isIdempotentElem_iff_of_fg
{R : Type u_1}
[CommRing R]
(I : Ideal R)
(h : I.FG)
:
IsIdempotentElem I ↔ ∃ (e : R), IsIdempotentElem e ∧ I = Submodule.span R {e}
A finitely generated idempotent ideal is generated by an idempotent element