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Non-absolutely irreducible elements in the ring of Integer-valued polynomials

Commutative Algebra 2020-06-30 v3

Abstract

Let RR be a commutative ring with identity. An element rRr \in R is said to be absolutely irreducible in RR if for all natural numbers n>1n>1, rnr^n has essentially only one factorization namely rn=rrr^n = r \cdots r. If rRr \in R is irreducible in RR but for some n>1n>1, rnr^n has other factorizations distinct from rn=rrr^n = r \cdots r, then rr is called non-absolutely irreducible. In this paper, we construct non-absolutely irreducible elements in the ring Int(Z)={fQ[x]f(Z)Z}\text{Int}(\mathbb{Z}) = \{f\in \mathbb{Q}[x] \mid f(\mathbb{Z}) \subseteq \mathbb{Z}\} of integer-valued polynomials. We also give generalizations of these constructions.

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@article{arxiv.1910.10278,
  title  = {Non-absolutely irreducible elements in the ring of Integer-valued polynomials},
  author = {Sarah Nakato},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.10278},
  year   = {2020}
}
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