Paper 2, Section I, E

Groups, Rings and Modules | Part IB, 2017

(a) Define what is meant by a unique factorisation domain and by a principal ideal domain. State Gauss's lemma and Eisenstein's criterion, without proof.

(b) Find an example, with justification, of a ring RR and a subring SS such that

(i) RR is a principal ideal domain, and

(ii) SS is a unique factorisation domain but not a principal ideal domain.

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