Half-factorial subrings of factorial domains (Q890644)

The authors investigate half-factorial subrings \(R\) of factorial domains \(S\) when \(S\) is the integral closure of \(R\) and their groups of units coincide. Recall that a half-factorial domain \(D\) is a domain in which every non-zero element that is not a unit is a product of a unique number of irreducible elements of \(D\). In case \(A\) is a factorial domain, then this characterization provides a description of half-factorial \(A\)-subalgebras \(R\) with multiplicative conductors into \(R\) of the polynomial ring \(A[T]\) over \(A\) in the indeterminate \(T\).