Integer-valued Polynomials, Prüfer Domains and the Sacked Bases Property

Abstract

To study the question of whether every two-dimensional Prüfer domain possesses the stacked bases property, we consider the particular case of the Prüfer domains formed by integer-valued polynomials. The description of the spectrum of the rings of integer-valued polynomials on a subset of a rank-one valuation domain enables us to prove that they all possess the stacked bases property. We also consider integer-valued polynomials on rings of integers of number fields and we reduce in this case the study of the stacked bases property to questions concerning $2\times 2$-matrices.

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