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Polycyclic group rings and unique factorisation rings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2009

Kenneth W. MacKenzie
Kenneth W. MacKenzie
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Department of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building, King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ
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The theory of unique factorisation in commutative rings has recently been extended to noncommutative Noetherian rings in several ways. Recall that an element x of a ring R is said to be normalif xR = Rx. We will say that an element p of a ring R is (completely) prime if p is a nonzero normal element of R and pR is a (completely) prime ideal. In [2], a Noetherian unique factorisation domain (or Noetherian UFD) is defined to be a Noetherian domain in which every nonzero prime ideal contains a completely prime element: this concept is generalised in [4], where a Noetherian unique factorisation ring(or Noetherian UFR) is defined as a prime Noetherian ring in which every nonzero prime ideal contains a nonzero prime element; note that it follows from the noncommutative version of the Principal Ideal Theorem that in a Noetherian UFR, if pis a prime element then the height of the prime ideal pR must be equal to 1. Surprisingly many classes of noncommutative Noetherian rings are known to be UFDs or UFRs: see [2] and [4] for details. This theory has recently been extended still further, to cover certain classes of non-Noetherian rings: see [3].

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Glasgow Mathematical Journal , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , May 1994 , pp. 135 - 144
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Copyright © Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust 1994

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