Nagata Factoriality

Arthur Freitas Ramos 📧, David Barros Hulak 📧 and Ruy Jose Guerra Barretto de Queiroz 📧

April 20, 2026

Abstract

This entry formalizes a prime-generated version of Nagata's factoriality theorem in Isabelle/HOL. It develops the basic theory of prime-generated multiplicative sets, packages a wrapper interface around the AFP entry Localization_Ring, and proves record-based descent theorems showing that factoriality descends from a localization to the base ring under prime-generated and prime-or-unit hypotheses on the multiplicative set. The theorem package also includes closure-based corollaries for arbitrary and finite families of prime generators. The application layer specializes this framework to polynomial rings, both for localization away the polynomial variable X and for localizations generated by constant prime polynomials.

License

BSD License

Topics

Session Nagata-Factoriality