Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906 ; Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906 ; Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906
Abstract:
We study content ideals of polynomials and their behavior under multiplication. We give a generalization of the Lemma of Dedekind-Mertens and prove the converse under suitable dimensionality restrictions.