A quick route to unique factorization in quadratic orders

DOI10.1080/00029890.2021.1898875MaRDI QIDQ4991620zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Paul Pollack, Noah Snyder

Publication date 3 June 2021

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.05033

zbMATH Keywords

irreducible idealsminimal polynomialsunique factorization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic extensions (11R11) Class numbers, class groups, discriminants (11R29)

Abstract: We give a short proof -- not relying on ideal classes or the geometry of numbers -- of a known criterion for quadratic orders to possess unique factorization.

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