On the rational relationships among pseudo-roots of a non-commutative polynomial

Abstract

For a non-commutative ring R, we consider factorizations of polynomials in R[t] where t is a central variable. A pseudo-root of a polynomial p(t) is an element x in R, for which there exist polynomials q(t) and s(t) such that p(t)=q(t)(t-x)s(t). We investigate the rational relationships that hold among the pseudo-roots of p(t) by using the diamond operations for cover graphs of modular lattices.

Minor corrections, to appear in "Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra"