A General Theory of Splitting Sets

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Let \(\ast \) be a star operation on an integral domain \(D\) and let \(S\) be a saturated multiplicative set of \(D,\) throughout. Call \(x,y\in D\backslash \{0\}\) \(\ast \)-coprime if \((x,y)^{\ast }=D.\) \(S\) is a splitting set if for all \(d\in D\backslash \{0\}\) \(d=st\) where \(s\in S\) and \(t\) is \(v\)-coprime to every \(s^{\prime }\in S.\) The splitting sets have been useful in the study of divisibility properties of integral domains, especially in connection with the notion of (\(t\)-)class group introduced in \textit{A. Bouvier}'s [107ième Congrès des Sociétés Savantes, Fasc IV, 85--92, Brest (1982); per bibl.]. The reader may consult \textit{D. D. Anderson} and the reviewer [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 129, No. 8, 2209--2217 (2001; Zbl 0962.13001)] for a brief review of splitting sets, their properties and applications. For a finite type star operation \(\ast \) the authors call \(S\) a \(g^{\ast }\) -splitting set if each \(d\in D\backslash \{0\}\) can be written as \(d=st\) where \(s\in S\) and \(t\) is \(\ast \)-coprime to every \(s^{\prime }\in S.\) Since \((x,y)_{v}=(x,y)_{t}\) , a `splitting set' is indeed a `\(g^{t}\)-splitting set'. The authors generalize several results on splitting sets to \(g^{\ast }\) -splitting sets and generalize results concerning the \(t\)-class group to a generalization of \(t\)-class groups due to \textit{D. F. Anderson} [Commun. Algebra 16, No. 4, 805--847 (1988; Zbl 0648.13002)]. The authors offer examples to show the existence of (a) a splitting set that is not a \(g^{\ast }\)-splitting set and (b) a \( g^{\ast }\)-splitting set that is not a \(g^{d}\)-splitting set, here \(d\) is the identity star operation. The paper is interesting reading. Hopefully we would soon see results utilizing all these generalizations.











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