Bourbaki

Corollary 1

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Commutative Algebra, chapter V, § 1. Notion of an integral element

Let AA be an integral domain and A′A' its integral closure. Then the integral closure of the polynomial ring A[X1,…,Xn]A[X_1, \ldots, X_n] is A′[X1,…,Xn]A'[X_1, \ldots, X_n].

Arguing by induction on nn, the problem is immediately reduced to the case n=1n = 1. Let KK be the field of fractions of AA, which is also that of A′A'; if an element PP of the field of fractions K(X)K(X) of A[X]A[X] is integral over A[X]A[X], it belongs to the polynomial ring K[X]K[X], for the latter is a principal ideal domain (Algebra, Chapter IV, § 1, no. 5, Proposition 7) and hence integrally closed (Proposition 10); the corollary then follows from Proposition 13 applied to R=K\mathbf{R} = K.

Bourbaki puts the proof directly after the statement, so what is above is the statement and its proof together.

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