When are associates unit multiples?

DOI10.1216/RMJM/1181069828MaRDI QIDQ1768057zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. J. Forman, Joe Stickles, D. D. Anderson, Michael Axtell

Publication date 11 March 2005

Published in Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1216/rmjm/1181069828

Divisibility and factorizations in commutative rings (13A05) Ideals and multiplicative ideal theory in commutative rings (13A15) Arithmetic rings and other special commutative rings (13F99)

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Let \(R\) be a commutative ring with identity. Two elements \(a,b\in R\) are called: (i) associates, denoted \(a\sim b\), if \(a| b\) and \(b| a\); (ii) strong associates, denoted \(a\approx b\), if \(a=ub\) for some unit \(u\) of \(R\); (iii) very strong associates, denoted \(a\cong b\), if \(a\sim b\) and the conditions \(a\neq 0\) and \(a=rb\) imply that \(r\) is a unit. One always has \(a\cong b\Rightarrow a\approx b\Rightarrow a\sim b\). The ring \(R\) is called: (i) strongly associate if \(a,b\in R\), \(a\sim b\) implies \(a\approx b\); (ii) présimplifiable if \(a,b\in R\), \(a\sim b\) (or \(a\approx b\)) implies \(a\cong b\). It is known that every présimplifiable ring is strongly associate. The authors establish various properties of these kinds of rings.

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