Abhyankar proved that every field of finite transcendence degree over or over a finite field is a homomorphic image of a subring of the ring of polynomials (for some depending on the field). We conjecture that his result cannot be substantially strengthened and show that our conjecture implies a well-known conjecture on the additive idempotence of semifields that are finitely generated as semirings.
The notion of a d-sequence in Commutative Algebra was introduced by Craig Huneke, while the notion of a sequence of linear type was introduced by Douglas Costa. Both types of sequences generate ideals of linear type. In this paper we study another type of sequences, that we call c-sequences. They also generate ideals of linear type. We show that c-sequences are in between d-sequences and sequences of linear type and that the initial subsequences of c-sequences are c-sequences. Finally we prove a...
We are concerned with solving polynomial equations over rings. More precisely, given a commutative domain A with 1 and a polynomial equation antn + ...+ a0 = 0 with coefficients ai in A, our problem is to find its roots in A.We show that when A = B[x] is a polynomial ring, our problem can be reduced to solving a finite sequence of polynomial equations over B. As an application of this reduction, we obtain a finite algorithm for solving a polynomial equation over A when A is F[x1, ..., xN] or F(x1,...
The Dedekind-Mertens lemma relates the contents of two polynomials and the content of their product. Recently, Epstein and Shapiro extended this lemma to the case of power series. We review the problem with a special emphasis on the case of power series, give an answer to a question posed by Epstein-Shapiro and investigate extensions of some related results. This note is of expository character and discusses the history of the problem, some examples and announces some new results.
We introduce and study a new class of ring extensions based on a new formula involving the heights of their primes. We compare them with the classical altitude inequality and altitude formula, and we give another characterization of locally Jaffard domains, and domains satisfying absolutely the altitude inequality (resp., the altitude formula). Then we study the extensions R ⊆ S where R satisfies the corresponding condition with respect to S (Definition 3.1). This leads to a new characterization...
We describe the structure of the group of algebraic automorphisms of the following surfaces 1) P1,k x P1,k minus a diagonal; 2) P1,k x P1,k minus a fiber. The motivation is to get a new proof of two theorems proven respectively by L. Makar-Limanov and H. Nagao. We also discuss the structure of the semi-group of polynomial proper maps from C2 to C2.