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A prime ideal of height $\geq 2$ in a Noetherian ring contains infinitely many prime ideals of height 1

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I am trying to prove this statement by deducing a contradiction to Krull's Principal ideal theorem. Here is my attempt:

Denote $R$ and $P$ the ring and the prime ideal under consideration, respectively, with $ht(P) \geq 2$. Assume there are finitely many prime ideals $\mathfrak{q}_1,...,\mathfrak{q}_n \subseteq P$ with $ht(\mathfrak{q}_i)=1$ for all $i=1,...n$. Consider the chain of prime ideals $\mathfrak{p}_i \subsetneq \mathfrak{q}_i \subsetneq{P}$ with $ht(\mathfrak{p}_i)=0$. For each $a \in P \setminus\mathfrak{q}_i$ there exist a chain of prime ideals $\mathfrak{p}_i \subsetneq \mathfrak{q}'_{a,i} \subsetneq{P}$ with $a \in \mathfrak{q}'_{a,i}$. Now we get the chain $\mathfrak{p}_i \subsetneq (a) \subseteq \mathfrak{q}'_{a,i} \subsetneq{P}$, and I don't know how to go on from this. I guess that $(a)=\mathfrak{q}'_{a,i}$ and then we can deduce a contradiction from Krull's Principal ideal theorem, but I am not sure if my intuition is right.

Any help or other approaches will be really appreciated.


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