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Properly Integral Polynomials over the Ring of Integer-valued Polynomials on a Matrix Ring

Rings and Algebras 2018-09-26 v2 Commutative Algebra

Abstract

Let DD be a domain with fraction field KK, and let Mn(D)M_n(D) be the ring of n×nn \times n matrices with entries in DD. The ring of integer-valued polynomials on the matrix ring Mn(D)M_n(D), denoted IntK(Mn(D)){\rm Int}_K(M_n(D)), consists of those polynomials in K[x]K[x] that map matrices in Mn(D)M_n(D) back to Mn(D)M_n(D) under evaluation. It has been known for some time that IntQ(Mn(Z)){\rm Int}_{\mathbb{Q}}(M_n(\mathbb{Z})) is not integrally closed. However, it was only recently that an example of a polynomial in the integral closure of IntQ(Mn(Z)){\rm Int}_{\mathbb{Q}}(M_n(\mathbb{Z})) but not in the ring itself appeared in the literature, and the published example is specific to the case n=2n=2. In this paper, we give a construction that produces polynomials that are integral over IntK(Mn(D)){\rm Int}_K(M_n(D)) but are not in the ring itself, where DD is a Dedekind domain with finite residue fields and n2n \geq 2 is arbitrary. We also show how our general example is related to PP-sequences for IntK(Mn(D)){\rm Int}_K(M_n(D)) and its integral closure in the case where DD is a discrete valuation ring.

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@article{arxiv.1506.09083,
  title  = {Properly Integral Polynomials over the Ring of Integer-valued Polynomials on a Matrix Ring},
  author = {Giulio Peruginelli and Nicholas J. Werner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.09083},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

final version, to appear in J. Algebra (2016); comments are welcome!

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