Pole assignability of rings of low dimension (Q1112116)

The authors introduce and study a nonmatricial formulation of the concept of pole-assignability over a commutative ring \(R\). Thus, a system over \(R\) is a pair of \(R\)-homomorphisms \((F,G)\) with \(G\colon U\to X\), \(F\colon X\to X\), where \(U\) and \(X\) are finitely generated projective \(R\)-modules. The ring \(R\) is said to be pole-assignable if every reachable systems over \(R\) is pole-assignable. If finitely generated projective \(R\)-modules are free, then this coincides with the older matricial concept of pole-assignability. The authors remark that this projective formulation of pole-assignability is also given by \textit{M. L. J. Hautus} and \textit{E. D. Sontag} in [J. Pure Appl. Algebra 40, 229--244 (1986; Zbl 0665.93018)]. A characterization is given of pole-assignable rings, and it is shown that any j-Noetherian domain with j-dimension equal to one and \((0)\) a j-prime is pole-assignable.