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- From: bumby@dimacs.rutgers.edu (Richard Bumby)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Euclidean Domain
- Message-ID: <Jan.10.09.44.57.1993.15296@dimacs.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 14:44:57 GMT
- References: <1993Jan8.211440.374@ncar.ucar.edu>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- steele@isis.cgd.ucar.edu (Alfred Steele) writes:
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- >In article <HAMMOND.93Jan3134111@annemarie.albany.edu>, hammond@csc.albany.edu (
- >William F. Hammond) writes:
- >|> In article <Jan.3.02.05.44.1993.24643@spade.rutgers.edu>
- >|> cadet@spade.rutgers.edu (Uniquely TiJean) writes:
- >[....]
-
- >|>If someone can answer the question:
- >|>Why there are not other candidates for the Euclidean function?
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- >I have asked the very same question and do not know the answer....
- >Any information netters know about this, I would be interested in hearing
- >about. What is the "folklore" on the subject?
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- This should be a FAQ. T. S. Motzkin, "The Euclidean Algorithm", Bull.
- Amer. Math. Soc. 55(1949), 1142-1146, gave a simple analysis of the
- properties of any Euclidean Algorithm in an integral domain. The idea
- is to work backwards, starting with the set consisting only of zero,
- and applying the following construction. The derived set of a set, S,
- consists of all elements of the domain which have a complete set of
- residues in S. This construction may be extended transfinitely if
- necessary by taking unions at limit ordinals. In order to have a
- Euclidean Algorithm, you must be able to exhaust the domain in this
- way. For quadratic number rings, there are only finitely many units.
- The derived set of {0} consists only of units. If all proper ideals
- have index greater than the number of units (only 2 except for some
- rings that are already Euclidean for the norm), the process stops
- there.
-
- Another major article on Euclidean Algorithms is P. Samuel, "About
- Euclidean Rings", J. Algebra 19 (1971), 282-301. It would appear that
- the next major exposition is due this year.
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