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Normsets and determination of unique factorization in rings of algebraic integers

Author(s): Jim Coykendall
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 124 (1996), 1727-1732.
MSC (1991): Primary 11R04, 11R29; Secondary 11Y40
MathSciNet review: 1317034
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Abstract: The image of the norm map from $R$ to $T$ (two rings of algebraic integers) is a multiplicative monoid $S$. We present conditions under which $R$ is a UFD if and only if $S$ has unique factorization into irreducible elements. From this we derive a bound for checking if $R$ is a UFD.


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Additional Information:

Jim Coykendall
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
Address at time of publication: Department of Mathematics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
Email: jimbob@math.cornell.edu, jbc4@lehigh.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-96-03261-3
PII: S 0002-9939(96)03261-3
Keywords: Normsets, Galois (extension), norm factorization field (extension), Minkowski bound
Received by editor(s): March 21, 1994
Received by editor(s) in revised form: December 29, 1994
Communicated by: William W. Adams
Copyright of article: Copyright 1996, American Mathematical Society




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