Integer valued polynomials on lower triangular integer matrices
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Integer valued polynomials on lower triangular integer matrices
zbMATH Open document ID: 1266.13015
author: Keith Johnson
author: Sabine Evrard
author: Youssef Fares
published in: Monatshefte für Mathematik
publication date: 2013-05-13T00:00:00Z
review text: Let \(D\) be an integral domain with quotient field \(K\), and denote by \(T_n(D)\) the set of \(n\)-dimensional lower triangular matrices with entries from \(D\). The authors study the set \(\mathrm{Int}(T_n(D))\) of integer valued polynomials, i.e. polynomials \(f\in K(x)\) satisfying \(f(T_n(D))\subset T_n(D)\). First they consider the case \(D=Z\), \(n=2\) and show (Theorem 3) that \(\mathrm{Int}(T_2(Z))\) equals the set of polynomials \(f\in Q[x]\) for which \(f(Z)\subset Z\) and \((f(x)-f(y))/(x-y)\) maps \(Z\times Z\) into \(Z\). In the general case the authors prove (Theorem 16) that \[ \mathrm{Int}(T_n(D))=\{f\in K[x]:\;\Phi^k(f)\text{ maps } D^{k+1} \text{ into } D\text{ for } k=1,2,\dots,n-1\}, \] where the \(k\)-th divided difference \(\Phi^k(f)\) of \(f\) is defined recursively by \[ \Phi^0(f)(x_0)=f,\;\Phi^1(f)(x_0,x_1)={f(x_0)-f(x_1)\over x_1-x_0}, \] \[ \Phi^{k+1}(f)(x_0,\dots,x_{k+1})={\Phi^k(f)(x_1,\dots,x_k)-\Phi^k(f)(x_1,\dots,x_{k+1})\over x_k-x_{k+1}}. \] In the last section the authors show (Theorem 27) that if \(D\) is the ring of \(S\)-integers of a global field, \(S\) being a finite set of primes, then the largest set containing \(T_n(D)\) and having the same set of integer valued polynomials equals the set of \(n\)-dimensional matrices over \(D\) whose characteristic polynomials are products of linear polynomials over \(D\).
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 13F20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11C08
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11C20
zbMATH DE Number: 6162231
zbMATH Keywords: integer valued polynomials
zbMATH Keywords: lower triangular matrices
zbMATH Keywords: divided differences
zbMATH Keywords: polynomial closure
reviewed by: Władysław Narkiewicz
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: s00605-013-0481-6
OpenAlex ID: W1965299363
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DOI: 10.1007/S00605-013-0481-6
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6162231