Non-Unique Factorization of Polynomials Over Residue Class Rings of the Integers

DOI10.1080/00927872.2010.549158zbMATH Open1223.13014arXiv0907.0657OpenAlexW2010753359MaRDI QIDQ2995352FDOQ2995352

Sophie Frisch, Christopher Frei

Publication date: 20 April 2011

Published in: Communications in Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate non-unique factorization of polynomials in Z_{p^n}[x] into irreducibles. As a Noetherian ring whose zero-divisors are contained in the Jacobson radical, Z_{p^n}[x] is atomic. We reduce the question of factoring arbitrary non-zero polynomials into irreducibles to the problem of factoring monic polynomials into monic irreducibles. The multiplicative monoid of monic polynomials of Z_{p^n}[x] is a direct sum of monoids corresponding to irreducible polynomials in Z_p[x], and we show that each of these monoids has infinite elasticity. Moreover, for every positive integer m, there exists in each of these monoids a product of 2 irreducibles that can also be represented as a product of m irreducibles.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.0657

zbMATH Keywords

elasticityfinite ringzero-divisorsmonoidsnon-unique factorizationsfactorization of polynomials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polynomials over finite fields (11T06) Polynomials, factorization in commutative rings (13P05) Commutative semigroups (20M14) Polynomials and finite commutative rings (13M10)

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