Strongly clean matrices over arbitrary rings

Autor: Thomas J. Dorsey, Alexander J. Diesl
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Journal of Algebra. 399:854-869
ISSN: 0021-8693
DOI: 10.1016/j.jalgebra.2013.08.044
Popis: We characterize when the companion matrix of a monic polynomial over an arbitrary ring R is strongly clean, in terms of a type of ideal-theoretic factorization (which we call an iSRC factorization) in the polynomial ring R [ t ] . This provides a nontrivial necessary condition for M n ( R ) to be strongly clean, for R arbitrary. If the ring in question is either local or commutative, then we can say more (generalizing and extending most of what is currently known about this problem). If R is local, our iSRC factorization is equivalent to an actual polynomial factorization, generalizing results in [1] , [18] and [12] . If, instead, R is commutative and h ∈ R [ t ] is monic, we again show that an iSRC factorization yields a polynomial factorization, and we prove that h has such a factorization if and only if its companion matrix is strongly clean, if and only if every algebraic element (in every R-algebra) which satisfies h is strongly clean. This generalizes the work done in [1] on commutative local rings and provides a characterization of strong cleanness in M n ( R ) for any commutative ring R.
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