Easier Waring problems for commutative rings
We investigate the elasticity of atomic domains of the form ℜ = A + XB[X], where X is an indeterminate, A is a local domain that is not a field, and A ⊂ B is a minimal extension of integral domains. We provide the exact value of the elasticity of ℜ in all cases depending the position of the maximal ideals of B. Then we investigate when such domains are half-factorial domains.
We establish several finiteness characterizations and equations for the cardinality and the length of the set of overrings of rings with nontrivial zero divisors and integrally closed in their total ring of fractions. Similar properties are also obtained for related extensions of commutative rings that are not necessarily integral domains. Numerical characterizations are obtained for rings with some finiteness conditions afterwards.
Let be a number field. It is well known that the set of recurrencesequences with entries in is closed under component-wise operations, and so it can be equipped with a ring structure. We try to understand the structure of this ring, in particular to understand which algebraic equations have a solution in the ring. For the case of cyclic equations a conjecture due to Pisot states the following: assume is a recurrence sequence and suppose that all the have a root in the field ; then (after...