Sharpness and semistar operations in Pruefer-like domains

Abstract

Let $\star$ be a semistar operation on a domain $D$, $\star_f$ the finite-type semistar operation associated to $\star$, and $D$ a Pr\"ufer $\star$-multiplication domain (P$\star$MD). For the special case of a Pr\"ufer domain (where $\star$ is equal to the identity semistar operation), we show that a nonzero prime $P$ of $D$ is sharp, that is, that $D_P \nsupseteq \bigcap D_M$, where the intersection is taken over the maximal ideals $M$ of $D$ that do not contain $P$, if and only if two closely related spectral semistar operations on $D$ differ. We then give an appropriate definition of $\star_f$-sharpness for an arbitrary P$\star$MD $D$ and show that a nonzero prime $P$ of $D$ is $\star_f$-sharp if and only if its extension to the $\star$-Nagata ring of $D$ is sharp. Calling a P$\star$MD $\star_f$-sharp ($\star_f$-doublesharp) if each maximal (prime) $\star_f$-ideal of $D$ is sharp, we also prove that such a $D$ is $\star_f$-doublesharp if and only if each $(\star, t)$-linked overring of $D$ is $\star_f$-sharp.