=ADD= =reftype= 14 =number= 98-17 =url= ftp://ftp.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/pub/techreports/1998/98-17.ps.gz =year= 1998 =month= 11 =author= Schicho; Josef + Li; Ziming =title= A Construction of Radical Ideals in Polynomial Algebra =abstract= Given an ideal~$I$ generated by~$n$ polynomials in~$m+n$ indeterminates over a field, we construct an ideal~$J$ from the given basis of~$I$ and one of its Jacobians. We prove that~$J$ is radical and that~$J$ is the intersection of some isolated prime ideals of~$I$ if~$J$ is nontrivial. The result may be regarded as a generalization of a lemma by~D.~Lazard.