comaximal ideals
Let be a ring.
Two ideals and of are said to be comaximal if .If is unital (http://planetmath.org/Ring), this is equivalent to requiring thatthere be and such that .
For example, any two distinct maximal ideals of are comaximal.
A set of ideals of is said to be pairwise comaximal (or just comaximal) if for all distinct .