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Bhargava factorials and irreducibility of integer-valued polynomials

Commutative Algebra 2021-09-28 v1

Abstract

The ring of integer-valued polynomials over a given subset SS of Z\Z (or Int(S,Z)) \mathrm{Int}(S,\Z )) is defined as the set of polynomials in \Q[x]\Q[x] which maps SS to Z\Z. In factorization theory, it is crucial to check the irreducibility of a polynomial. In this article, we make Bhargava factorials our main tool to check the irreducibility of a given polynomial fInt(S,Z))f \in \mathrm{Int}(S,\Z )). We also generalize our results to arbitrary subsets of a Dedekind domain.

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@article{arxiv.2109.12867,
  title  = {Bhargava factorials and irreducibility of integer-valued polynomials},
  author = {Devendra Prasad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.12867},
  year   = {2021}
}

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Accepted for publication in Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, 2021

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