On Gröbner bases and Krull dimension of residue class rings of polynomial rings over integral domains (Q1680153)

Assume that \(A\) is a Noetherian integral domain, \(R=A[x_1,\ldots ,x_n]\) is the polynomial ring in terms of \(x_1,\ldots ,x_n\) with coefficients in \(A\) and \(I\) is an ideal of \(R\). In the paper, the authors address the problem of computing the Krull dimension of \(R/I\). If \(A\) is a field then it is well-known that it can be computed using Gröbner bases. In this direction, they introduce the notion of \textit{combinatorial dimension} of \(R/I\) and describe an algorithm to compute it provided that \(R/I\) is a free \(A\)-module. In addition, they study the relations between these two kind of dimensions. Finally, the concepts of Hilbert function, Hilbert series and Hilbert polynomial of \(R/I\) (in the case that \(R/I\) is a free \(A\)-module) are defined and it is shown how one can use Gröbner bases to compute them. This study enables to investigate several properties of the mentioned dimensions.