Combines the proceedings of a conference on factorization and a session of the American Mathematical Society's annual meeting on commutative ring theory both held in Iowa City in March 1996. Of the 25 papers, the main five ones survey the topics of elasticity; finitely generated monoids, finitely primary monoids, and factorization properties; the sets of lengths and associated combinatorial problems of Krull domains and monoids; the catenary degree and tameness of factorizations in weakly Krull domains; and the theory of divisibility. Other topics include the factorization of bonds and other cash flows, Henselian pullbacks, general integral closures, and coefficient and stable ideals in polynomial rings. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
The contents in this work are taken from both the University of Iowa's Conference on Factorization in Integral Domains, and the 909th Meeting of the American Mathematical Society's Special Session in Commutative Ring Theory held in Iowa City. The text gathers current work on factorization in integral domains and monoids, and the theory of divisibility, emphasizing possible different lengths of factorization into irreducible elements.
