Periodicity of Recurring Sequences in Rings.
1. Let R be a domain and f ∈ R[X] a polynomial. A k-tuple of distinct elements of R is called a cycle of f if for i=0,1,...,k-2 and . The number k is called the length of the cycle. A tuple is a cycle in R if it is a cycle for some f ∈ R[X]. It has been shown in [1] that if R is the ring of all algebraic integers in a finite extension K of the rationals, then the possible lengths of cycles of R-polynomials are bounded by the number , depending only on the degree N of K. In this note we consider...
All rings considered are commutative with unit. A ring R is SISI (in Vámos' terminology) if every subdirectly irreducible factor ring R/I is self-injective. SISI rings include Noetherian rings, Morita rings and almost maximal valuation rings ([V1]). In [F3] we raised the question of whether a polynomial ring R[x] over a SISI ring R is again SISI. In this paper we show this is not the case.