TY - BOOK AU - Dasgupta,Nikhilesh TI - Studies on polynomial rings through locally nilpotent derivations U1 - 512.4 23rd. PY - 2019/// CY - Kolkata PB - Indian Statistical Institute KW - Algebra KW - Rings KW - Polynomial rings N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Indian Statistical Institute, 2019; Includes bibliography; Introduction -- Preliminaries -- On algebraic characterization of the affine three space -- On Nice and Quasi-Nice Derivations; Guided by Prof. Neena Gupta N2 - The main aim of the thesis is to investigate the following problems : (i) To find an algebraic characterization of the polynomial ring k[X, Y, Z] over an algebraically closed field k of characteristic zero (in particular, an algebraic characterization of the affine three space). (ii) To determine the structure of the kernel of a nice derivation on the polynomial ring R[X, Y, Z] over a PID R containing Q; in particular, the structure of the kernel of a nice derivation on k[X1, X2, X3, X4] of rank 3, where k is a field of characteristic zero. The first problem will be discussed in Chapter 3 under the heading “On algebraic characterization of the affine three space” while the second problem will be taken up in Chapter 4 entitled “On Nice and Quasi-Nice Derivations”. Sections 1.2 and 1.3 of this chapter present an overview of the main results of Chapters 3 and 4, along with their contexts. In Chapter 2, we give the necessary definitions (Section 2.1) and state some well-known results on locally nilpotent derivations (Section 2.2) and on polynomial rings and projective modules (Section 2.3) UR - http://dspace.isical.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/10263/7119 ER -