Spontaneous atomicity for polynomial rings with zero-divisors

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2016.12.002MaRDI QIDQ2396798zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stacy Trentham, Jim Coykendall

Publication date 26 May 2017

Published in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.05976

zbMATH Keywords

factorizationpolynomialsatomicity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polynomials over commutative rings (13B25) Commutative rings defined by factorization properties (e.g., atomic, factorial, half-factorial) (13F15) Polynomials, factorization in commutative rings (13P05)

Abstract: In this paper, we show that it is possible for a commutative ring with identity to be non-atomic (that is, there exist non-zero nonunits that cannot be factored into irreducibles) and yet have a strongly atomic polynomial extension. In particular, we produce a commutative ring with identity, R, that is antimatter (that is, R has no irreducibles whatsoever) such that R[t] is strongly atomic. What is more, given any nonzero nonunit f(t) in R[t] then there is a factorization of f(t) into irreducibles of length no more than deg(f(t)) + 2.

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