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ON THE CONNECTION BETWEEN DIFFERENTIAL POLYNOMIAL RINGS AND POLYNOMIAL RINGS OVER NIL RINGS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2019

LOUISA CATALANO*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA email lcatalan@math.kent.edu
MEGAN CHANG-LEE
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA email megancl13@berkeley.edu
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Abstract

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In this paper, we study some connections between the polynomial ring $R[y]$ and the differential polynomial ring $R[x;D]$. In particular, we answer a question posed by Smoktunowicz, which asks whether $R[y]$ is nil when $R[x;D]$ is nil, provided that $R$ is an algebra over a field of positive characteristic and $D$ is a locally nilpotent derivation.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2019 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.

Footnotes

The authors are supported in part by NSF grant DMS 1653002.

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