Boll. Unione Mat. Ital. DOI 10.1007/s40574-017-0148-7 An intersection condition for graded prime ideals Khaldoun Al-Zoubi 1 · Feda’a Qarqaz 1 Received: 8 April 2017 / Accepted: 20 October 2017 © Unione Matematica Italiana 2017 Abstract Let G be a group with identity e and let R be a commutative G-graded ring. In this paper, we will investigate commutative graded rings which satisfy the condition (). We say that a graded ring R satisfy the condition () if P is a graded prime ideal of R and if { I α } α is a family of graded ideals of R, then P contains α I α only if P contains some I α . Keywords Graded prime ideals · Intersection condition · Graded ideals Mathematics Subject Classification 13A02 · 16W50 1 Introduction and preliminaries Throughout this paper, all rings are assumed to be commutative with identity elements. The concept of graded prime ideal was introduced and studied in [1, 2, 6, 8] as a generalization of the notion of prime ideal. Let R be a G-graded ring. A proper graded ideal P of R is said to be a graded prime ideal (or gr-prime ideal) of R if whenever r and s are homogeneous elements of R such that rs P , then either r P or s P . In [6, Proposition 1.4], the authors proved the following property : If R is a G-graded ring, I 1 , I 2 ,..., I n a finite number of graded ideals of R, and P a graded prime ideal of R such that n i =1 I i P, then I j P for some j ∈{1, 2,..., n}. In this paper, we continue our research on intersection conditions for graded prime ideals. We study a graded ring R with property: () If P is a graded prime ideal of R and if { I α } α is a family of graded ideals of R, then P contains α I α only if P contains some I α . First, we recall some basic properties of graded rings and modules which will be used in the sequel. We refer to [46] for these basic properties and more information on graded rings B Khaldoun Al-Zoubi kfzoubi@just.edu.jo 1 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Jordan University of Science and Technology, P.O.Box 3030, Irbid 22110, Jordan 123