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Generalizations of Samuel's criteria for a ring to be a unique factorization domain

Commutative Algebra 2021-02-15 v1

Abstract

We give several criteria for a ring to be a UFD including generalizations of some criteria due to P. Samuel. These criteria are applied to construct, for any field k, (1) a Z-graded non-noetherian rational UFD of dimension three over k, and (2) k-affine rational UFDs defined by trinomial relations.

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@article{arxiv.2102.06642,
  title  = {Generalizations of Samuel's criteria for a ring to be a unique factorization domain},
  author = {Daniel Daigle and Gene Freudenburg and Takanori Nagamine},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.06642},
  year   = {2021}
}