The Euclidean criterion for irreducibles

DOI10.4169/AMER.MATH.MONTHLY.124.3.198MaRDI QIDQ4575236zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Pete L. Clark

Publication date 13 July 2018

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.01298

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Commutative rings defined by factorization properties (e.g., atomic, factorial, half-factorial) (13F15)

Abstract: We recast Euclid's proof of the infinitude of prime numbers as a Euclidean Criterion for a domain to have infinitely many atoms. We make connections with Furstenberg's "topological" proof of the infinitude of prime numbers and show that our criterion applies even in certain domains in which not all nonzero nonunits factor into products of irreducibles.

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