Irreducibility of integer-valued polynomials in several variables

Abstract

Let \(\underline{S}\) be an arbitrary subset of \(R^n\) where R is a domain with the field of fractions \(\mathbb {K}\). Denote the ring of polynomials in n variables over \(\mathbb {K}\) by \(\mathbb {K}[\underline{x}] \). The ring of integer-valued polynomials over \(\underline{S}\), denoted by Int\((\underline{S},R)\), is defined as the set of the polynomials of \(\mathbb {K}[\underline{x}] \), which maps \(\underline{S}\) to R. In this article, we study the irreducibility of the polynomials of Int\((\underline{S},R)\) for the first time in the case when R is a Unique Factorization Domain. We also show that our results remain valid when R is a Dedekind domain or, sometimes, any domain.