Some factorization properties of composite domains a+xb[x] and a+xb[[x]] (Q4947070)

Let \(A\) be a subring of an integral domain \(B\), and let \(X\) be an indeterminate. In this paper, the authors investigate several factorization properties of the rings \(R=A+XB[X]\subseteq B[X]\) and \(T=A+XB [[X]]\subseteq B[[X]]\). For example, they determine when \(R\) and \(T\) satisfy ACCP, and when \(R\) and \(T\) are archimedean, pre-Schreier, or MCD-domains. Since a GCD-domain is a pre-Schreier MCD-domain, they recover the recent result of \textit{D. Nour} \textit{El Abidine} and \textit{D. F. Anderson} [J. Pure Appl. Algebra 159, No. 1, 15-24 (2001)] that \(R\) (respectively, \(T)\) is a GCD-domain if and only if \(S=U(B)\cap A\) is a splitting multiplicative set, \(B=A_S\), and \(A\) is a GCD-domain (respectively, \(A\) and \(A_S[[X]]\) are GCD-domains).