The Ideal of Vanishing Polynomials and the Ring of Polynomial Functions

2023/09/24 by Borodin, Matvey, Liu, Ethan, Zhang, Justin
#Commutative Algebra (math.AC) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2310.01553

Abstract

Vanishing polynomials are polynomials over a ring which output 0 for all elements in the ring. In this paper, we study the ideal of vanishing polynomials over specific types of rings, along with the closely related ring of polynomial functions. In particular, we provide several results on generating vanishing polynomials. We first analyze the ideal of vanishing polynomial over ℤ_n, the ring of the integers modulo n. We then establish an isomorphism between the vanishing polynomials of a ring and the vanishing polynomials of the constituent rings in its decomposition. Lastly, we generalize our results to study the ideal of vanishing polynomials over arbitrary commutative rings.

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