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- From: cohen@alioth.greco-prog.fr (Henri Cohen)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Euclidean Domain
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.095311.16393@greco-prog.fr>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 09:53:11 GMT
- References: <1993Jan8.211440.374@ncar.ucar.edu> <Jan.10.09.44.57.1993.15296@dimacs.rutgers.edu>
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- Reply-To: cohen@alioth.greco-prog.fr (Henri Cohen)
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- In article <Jan.10.09.44.57.1993.15296@dimacs.rutgers.edu>,
- bumby@dimacs.rutgers.edu (Richard Bumby) writes:
- |> steele@isis.cgd.ucar.edu (Alfred Steele) writes:
- |>
- |>
- |> >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?
- |>
- |> >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?
- |>
- |> 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.
-
- Of course this is only for IMAGINARY quadratic number rings.
-
- |> 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.
- |> --
- |> R. T. Bumby ** Rutgers Math || Amer. Math. Monthly Problems Editor
- |> bumby@math.rutgers.edu || P.O. Box 10971 New Brunswick, NJ08906-0971
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-
- A result which I believe is due to H. W. Lenstra is that under the Generalized
- Riemann Hypothesis, ALL number fields with class number 1 (i.e. with unique
- factorization) are Euclidean for SOME Euclidean algorithm (of course usually
- not the one given by the norm), EXCEPT those which have finitely many units,
- in other words imaginary quadratic fields.
-
- Henri Cohen
-