Quotient rings, chain conditions and injective ring endomorphisms

Abstract

In this paper, the situation we shall be concerned with is that of a ring R, with a ring monomorphism α: R → R, which will not be assumed to be surjective.Much work has been done on the skew polynomial ring R[x, α] and the skew Laurent polynomial ring R[x, x-1, α], where α is an automorphism—see [3] for example. However, the fact that α is not surjective renders the study of these objects much more difficult.