Let A=k[x,y]/(x2,xy). Consider Ass(A/0) as in the previous proposition. We have one possible primary decomposition of 0:

0=(x¯)(y¯)

Notice that (y¯) is not prime here, since x¯2=0(y¯), but x¯(y¯). Therefore r(x¯)=(x¯). Also notice that (y¯) is primary. If a polynomial fg(y¯), and f(y¯), then that means that f has an x¯ term or a constant term. If g also had a constant term, then fg(y¯). The only possibility is that g has an x term, but then g2(y¯), since x2=0 and xy=0.

Thus Ass(A/0)={(x¯),(x¯,y¯)}, and we see that the nilradical is (x¯)(x¯,y¯)=(x¯), and the zero divisors are (x¯)(x¯,y¯)=(x¯,y¯).

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