A Simple Example of Non-Unique Factorization in Integral Domains

Algebraic numbers; rings of algebraic integers (11R04) Commutative rings defined by factorization properties (e.g., atomic, factorial, half-factorial) (13F15)

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``The purpose of this note is to consider some alternate examples to the traditional one ... in which the unique factorization property breaks down in a much more obvious manner. (The traditional example: in the ring \(\mathbb{Z}(\sqrt{-5})\) one has \(6=2\cdot 3=(1+\sqrt{-5})(1-\sqrt{-5})\).) ``In addition, we will be able to use these domains to show in a simple manner that a finite set of elements in a general integral domain need not have a greatest common divisor. One of the alternate examples reduces to the extension of an arbitrary field by the indeterminates \(X^ 2\), \(X^ 3\). The elements \(X^ 2\), \(X^ 3\) of the extension are both irreducible and in this integral domain one has \(X^ 6=X^ 2\cdot X^ 2\cdot X^ 2=X^ 3\cdot X^ 3\). A typical ``Monthly note!

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