On Krull’s Conjecture concerning Valuation Rings

Abstract

Previously W. Krull conjectured that every completely integrally closed primary domain of integrity is a valuation ring, The main purpose of the present paper is to construct in §1 a counter example against this conjecture. In § 2 we show a necessary and sufficient condition that a field is a quotient field of a suitable completely integrally closed primary domain of integrity which is not a valuation ring.