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Gauss lemma: primitive factorisations over can be cleared to primitive factorisations over
Statement
Let be primitive. If in with both and of positive degree, then there are primitive of positive degree such that .
Consequently, a primitive polynomial of positive degree is irreducible in if and only if it is irreducible in .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A primitive integer polynomial and a factorization in .
Products of primitive integer polynomials are primitive, and contents multiply (The product of primitive integer polynomials is primitive, and contents multiply).
Every rational number has an integer numerator and a nonzero integer denominator (The rationals as equivalence classes of pairs of integers).
The rational numbers form a field, and the integers embed in them preserving addition and multiplication (The rationals form a field, The integers embed in the rationals).
Products of nonzero integers are nonzero, and nonzero integers cancel in products (The integers have no zero divisors; multiplicative cancellation).
Irreducibility means that a nonzero nonunit has no factorization into two nonunits (Irreducible and prime elements of an integral domain).
Proof
By [L2], choose an integer numerator and nonzero integer denominator for each of the finitely many coefficients of and . Their denominator products are nonzero by [L4] and are common denominators, so [L3] and division by the positive contents of the cleared polynomials give and with and primitive of the same positive degrees as .
The equality , after writing in lowest terms with , gives ; [L1] makes both and primitive, so content multiplicativity gives and therefore ; hence .
Any integer factorization of a primitive polynomial into two nonunits has both factors of positive degree: a nonunit constant factor would have content greater than , contradicting [L1]. Conversely, steps 1.1 and 2.1 turn every rational positive-degree factorization into an integer one. By [L5], irreducibility over the two rings is therefore equivalent for primitive positive-degree polynomials.
Depends on
- The product of primitive integer polynomials is primitive, and contents multiply
- The rationals as equivalence classes of pairs of integers
- The rationals form a field
- The integers embed in the rationals
- The integers have no zero divisors; multiplicative cancellation
- Irreducible and prime elements of an integral domain
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Sources
- Thomas W. Judson, Abstract Algebra: Theory and Applications, Theorem 17.14 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Keith Conrad, Irreducibility Tests in Q[T], Appendix A.2 (standard reference, not scraped)