MULTIPLICATIVE IDEAL THEORY IN COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA

A Tribute to the Work of Robert Gilmer

MULTIPLICATIVE IDEAL THEORY IN COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA

A Tribute to the Work of Robert Gilmer

Edited by JAMES W. BREWER Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida SARAH GLAZ University of Connecticut, Storrs, Cormecticut WILLIAM J. HEINZER Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana BRUCE M. OLBERDING New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico

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Preface

This volume consists of a collection of articles centered around topics in commutative ring theory influenced or inspired by Robert Gilmer. The articles were solicited by the editors from experts in the field and each represents the state of the topic at the time of publication. Some of the articles are original research papers and some are expository. Several of the expository articles also contain original research. It is the editors' hope and intention that the volume will be useful to current researchers in the field and an inspiration to others to study this beautiful area of mathematics of which we are so fond. The volume is also intended to be a tribute to our friend and colleague, Robert Gilmer, whose work and presence has inspired us as well as others. We would like to thank the authors for their contributions, the referees for their work and Dr. John Martindale, Senior Editor, and Mr. Robert Saley, Assistant Editor, of Springer for their encouragement and help with this project. We thank also Jim Coykendall, Mitch Keller and The Mathematics Genealogy Project for providing us with Robert Gilmer's mathematics genealogy. Finally, we would like to express our appreciation to Robert himself for his contributions to the volume, both inspirational and actual.

Boca Raton, Florida Storrs, Connecticut West Lafayette, Indiana Las Cruces, New Mexico April 2006

Jim Brewer Sarah Glaz William Heinzer Bruce Olherding

Contents

C o m m u t a t i v e rngs D. D. Anderson R o b e r t Gilmer's work on semigroup rings David F. Anderson Numerical semigroup algebras Valentina Barucci Priifer r i n g s Silvana Bazzoni,

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S u b r i n g s of z e r o - d i m e n s i o n a l r i n g s Jim Brewer, Fred Richrnan Old problems and new questions around integer-valued p o l y n o m i a l s a n d factorial s e q u e n c e s Jean-Luc Chabert, Paul-Jean Cahen R o b e r t G i l m e r ' s c o n t r i b u t i o n s t o t h e t h e o r y of i n t e g e r - v a l u e d polynomials Scott T. Chapman, Vadim Ponomarenko, William W. Smith P r o g r e s s o n t h e d i m e n s i o n q u e s t i o n for pow^er s e r i e s r i n g s Jim Coykendall S o m e r e s e a r c h o n c h a i n s of p r i m e ideals i n f l u e n c e d b y t h e w r i t i n g s of R o b e r t G i l m e r D. E. Dobbs D i r e c t - s u m d e c o m p o s i t i o n s over o n e - d i m e n s i o n a l C o h e n M a c a u l a y local r i n g s Alberto Facchini, Wolfgang Hassler, Lee Klingler, Roger Wiegand

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A n h i s t o r i c a l o v e r v i e w of K r o n e c k e r f u n c t i o n r i n g s , N a g a t a r i n g s , a n d r e l a t e d star a n d s e m i s t a r o p e r a t i o n s Marco Fontana, K. Alan Loper Generalized Dedekind domains Stefania Gabelli Non-unique factorizations : a survey Alfred Geroldinger, Franz Halter-Koch M i x e d p o l y n o m i a l / p o w e r series rings and relations a m o n g their spectra William Heinzer, Christel Rotthaus, Sylvia Wiegand U p p e r s t o z e r o in p o l y n o m i a l r i n g s Evan Houston O n t h e d i m e n s i o n t h e o r y of p o l y n o m i a l r i n g s over p u U b a c k s 5*. Kabbaj A l m o s t D e d e k i n d d o m a i n s w h i c h are n o t D e d e k i n d K. Alan Loper I n t e g r a l i t y p r o p e r t i e s of p o l y n o m i a l r i n g s a n d s e m i g r o u p rings Thomas G. Lucas P u n c t u a l l y free i d e a l s Jack Ohm H o l o m o r p h y r i n g s of f u n c t i o n fields Bruce Olberding T h e m i n i m a l n u m b e r of g e n e r a t o r s of a n i n v e r t i b l e i d e a l Bruce Olberding, Moshe Roitman About minimal morphisms Gabriel Picavet, Martine Picavet-L 'Hermitte W h a t u - c o p r i m a l i t y c a n d o for y o u Muhammad Zafrullah S o m e q u e s t i o n s for further r e s e a r c h Robert Gilmer Robert Gilmer's published works

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List of Contributors

D . D . Anderson Department of Mathematics The University of Iowa Iowa City, lA 52242 ddandersSmath.uiowa.edu David F. Anderson Department of Mathematics The University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996-1300 andersonSmath.utk.edu Valentina Barucci Dipartimento di Matematica Universita di Roma La Sapienza Piazzale A. Moro 2 00185 Roma, Italy barucciSmat.uniromal.it Silvana Bazzoni Dipartimento di Matematica Pura e Apphcata Universita di Padova Via Belzoni 7 35131 Padova, Italy bazzoniSmath.unipd.it Jim Brewer Department of Mathematical Sciences Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 33431-6498 brewerOfau.edu

Paul-Jean Cahen Universite Paul Cezanne AixMarseille III LATP CNRS-UMR 6632 Faculte des Sciences et Techniques 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France p a u l - j ean.cahenOuniv.u-3mrs.fr Jean-Luc Chabert Universite de Picardie LAMFA CNRS-UMR 6140 Faculte de Mathematiques 33 rue Saint Leu 80039 Amiens Cedex 01, France j ean-luc.chabertOu-picardie.fr Scott T . Chapman Trinity University Department of Mathematics One Trinity Place San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 schapmanStrinity.edu Jim Coykendall Department of Mathematics North Dakota State University Fargo, ND 58105-5075 jim.coykendallOndsu.edu

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List of Contributors Franz Halter-Koch Institut fiir Mathematik Karl-Franzens-Universitat Graz Heinrichstrafie 36 8010 Graz, Austria franz.halterkoch@uni-graz.at Wolfgang Hassler Institut fiir Mathematik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Karl-Franzens-Universitat Graz Heinrichstrafie 36 8010 Graz, Austria Wolfgang.hassler@uni-graz.at William Heinzer Department of Mathematics Purdue University West Lafayette IN 47907-1395 heinzerOmath.purdue.edu Evan Houston Department of Mathematics University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC 28223 eghoustoOemail.uncc.edu S. Kabbaj Department of Mathematics King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia P.O. Box 5046 kabbaj Skfupm.edu.sa Lee Klingler Department of Mathematical Sciences Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 33431-6498 klinglerOfau.edu K. Alan Loper Department of Mathematics Ohio State University-Newark Newark, Ohio 43055 loperaSmath.ohio-state.edu

D. E. Dobbs Department of Mathematics University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996-1300 dobbsSmath.utk.edu Alberto Facchini Dipartimento di Matematica Pura e Applicata Universita di Padova Via Belzoni 7 35131 Padova, Italy facchiniOmath.unipd.it Marco Fontana Dipartimento di Matematica Universita degli Studi Roma Tre Largo San Leonardo Murialdo, 1 00146 Roma, Italy fontanaOmat.uniromaS.it Stefania Gabelli Dipartimento di Matematica Universita degli Studi Roma Tre Largo San Leonardo Murialdo, 1 00146 Roma, Italy gabelliOmat.uniromaS.it Alfred Geroldinger Institut fiir Mathematik Karl-Franzens-Universitat Graz Heinrichstrafie 36 8010 Graz, Austria alfred.geroldingerOuni-graz.at Robert Gilmer Department of Mathematics Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306-4510 gilmer@math.fsu.edu Sarah Glaz Department of Mathematics University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269 glazSmath.uconn.edu

List of Contributors T h o m a s G. Lucas Department of Mathematics University of North Carohna Charlotte Charlotte, NC 28223 tglucasSemail.uncc.edu Jack O h m 900 Fort Pickens Rd, 215 Pensacola Bch, F L 32561 veebcOearthlink.net Bruce Olberding Department of Mathematical Sciences New Mexico State University Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003-8001 olberdinSnmsu.edu Gabriel Picavet Laboratoire de Mathematiques Universite Blaise Pascal 63177 Aubiere Cedex, France Gabriel.PicavetOmath. univ-bpclermont.fr Martine Picavet-L'Hermitte Laboratoire de Mathematiques Universite Blaise Pascal 63177 Aubiere Cedex, France Martine.PicavetOmath. univ-bpclermont.fr Vadim Ponomarenko Department of Mathematics Trinity University One Trinity Place San Antonio, T X 78212-7200, vadiml23(3gmail. com Fred R i c h m a n Department of Mathematical Sciences Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 33431-6498 richmanSfau.edu Moshe Roitman Department of Mathematics University of Haifa Haifa, 31905 Israel mroitmanSmath.haifa.ac. i l

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Christel R o t t h a u s Department of Mathematics Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 488824-1024 rotthausSmath.msu.edu

William W. Smith Department of Mathematics T h e University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3250 wwsmithSemail.unc.edu

Roger Wiegand Department of Mathematics University of Nebraska Lincoln, N E 68588-0323 rwiegandSmath.unl.edu

Sylvia Wiegand Department of Mathematics University of Nebraska Lincoln, N E 68588-0130 swiegandSmath.unl.edu

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