Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 459310, 13 pages
Noncoherence of a Causal Wiener Algebra Used in Control Theory
Mathematics Department, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK
Received 18 March 2008; Accepted 13 June 2008
Academic Editor: Ülle Kotta
Copyright © 2008 Amol Sasane. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Let , and let denote the ring of all functions
such that , where , and
equipped with pointwise operations. (Here denotes the Laplace transform.) It is shown that the ring is not coherent, answering a question of Alban Quadrat. In fact, we present two principal ideals in the domain whose intersection is not finitely generated.