Polynomial and series rings and principal ideals. (Q1400881)

This paper surveys results from previous work by the author [\textit{A. A. Tuganbaev}, Mat. Zametki 70, No. 2, 270-288 (2001; Zbl 1035.16022); translation in Math. Notes 70, No. 2, 242-257 (2001) and in Formal power series and algebraic combinatorics, Moscow 2000. Berlin: Springer, 602-612 (2000; Zbl 0997.16032)] on the properties of skew polynomial and power series rings. It focuses on necessary and sufficient conditions for such rings to be right Bezout or principal right ideal rings. A ring \(R\) is right Bezout if every finitely generated right ideal is principal. For the case when the coefficient ring is strongly regular, there are also results in the paper on necessary and sufficient conditions for certain quotient rings (those obtained by factoring out a power of the variable) to be right Bezout.