Spontaneous atomicity for polynomial rings with zero-divisors

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2016.12.002zbMATH Open1370.13017arXiv1612.05976OpenAlexW2562171510MaRDI QIDQ2396798FDOQ2396798

Jim Coykendall, Stacy Trentham

Publication date: 26 May 2017

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

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.

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

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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)

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