GCD representatives for compressed zero-divisor graph classes in quotients of UFDs

About 11 years old · traced to

Let DD be a unique factorization domain and let II be an ideal expressed as a minimal union of principal ideals

I=⋃α∈Λ⟨nα⟩.I=\bigcup_{\alpha\in\Lambda}\langle n_\alpha\rangle.

Let ]¨ϕ:D→D/I\"]\phi:D\to D/I be the canonical homomorphism, and let ]¨[x]\"][x] denote the annihilator-equivalence class of a nonzero zero-divisor xx in the compressed zero-divisor graph.

GCD-representative conjecture. For every a∈Da\in D,

[ϕ(a)]=[ϕ(gcd⁡{a,nα∣α∈Λ})].[\phi(a)]=\left[\phi\left(\gcd\{a,n_\alpha\mid\alpha\in\Lambda\}\right)\right].

This would provide canonical gcd-type representatives for compressed zero-divisor graph classes in quotients by ideals with minimal principal-union expressions.

References

Primary source

Rachael Alvir, “Zero-Divisor Graphs of Quotient Rings”, arXiv:1508.02432 (2015).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.