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A Goldbach theorem for Laurent series semidomains

Number Theory 2025-11-20 v2 Commutative Algebra

Abstract

A semidomain is a subsemiring of an integral domain. One can think of a semidomain as an integral domain in which additive inverses are no longer required. A semidomain SS is additively reduced if 00 is the only invertible element of the monoid (S,+)(S,+), while SS is additively atomic if the monoid (S,+)(S,+) is atomic (i.e., every non-invertible element sSs \in S can be written as the sum of finitely many irreducibles of (S,+)(S,+)). In this paper, we describe the additively reduced and additively atomic semidomains SS for which every Laurent series fS[[x±1]]f \in S[[x^{\pm 1} ]] that is not a monomial can be written as the sum of at most three multiplicative irreducibles. In particular, we show that, for each kNk \in \mathbb{N}, every polynomial fN[x1±1,,xk±1]f \in \mathbb{N}[x_1^{\pm 1}, \ldots, x_k^{\pm 1}] that is not a monomial can be written as the sum of two multiplicative irreducibles provided that f(1,,1)>3f(1, \ldots, 1) > 3.

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@article{arxiv.2312.14888,
  title  = {A Goldbach theorem for Laurent series semidomains},
  author = {Nathan Kaplan and Harold Polo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.14888},
  year   = {2025}
}

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