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Cohen-Kaplansky domains: Integral domains with a finite number of irreducible elements
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Cohen-Kaplansky domains: Integral domains with a finite number of irreducible elements

D D Anderson and J L Mott
Journal of Algebra, Vol.148(1), pp.17-41
1992
DOI: 10.1016/0021-8693(92)90234-D
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Abstract

We define an integral domain R to be a Cohen-Kaplansky domain (CK domain) if every element of R is a finite product of irreducible elements and R has only finitely many nonassociate irreducible elements. The purpose of this paper is to investigate CK domains. Many conditions equivalent to R being a CK domain are given, for example, R is a CK domain if and only if R is a one-dimensional semi-local domain and for each nonprincipal maximal ideal M of R, R M is finite and R M is analytically irreducible, or, if and only if G ( R ), the group of divisibility of R , is finitely generated and rank G(R)= ¦ Max (R)¦ . We show that a CK domain is a certain special type of composite or pullback of a subring of a finite homomorphic image of a semilocal PID. Noetherian domains with G ( R ) finitely generated are also investigated.

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