ON HYPERBOLIC INTEGERS

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to investigate an ℓ-ring structure of algebraic integers from an arithmetic point of view. We endow the algebra D of hyperbolic numbers with its standard f-algebra structure [7]. We introduce the ring of hyperbolic integers Zh as a sub f-ring of the ring ZD of integers of D. Next, we prove that Zh is the unique, up to ring isomorphism, Archimedean f-ring of quadratic integers. Our study focuses on arithmetic properties of Zh related to its latticeordered structure. We show that many basic properties of the ring of integers Z such as primes, unique factorization theorem and the notions of floor and ceiling functions can be extended to Zh. A surprising fact is that prime numbers seen as hyperbolic integers are semiprimes. We also obtain some properties of hyperbolic Gaussian integers. As an application, we discuss the Dirichlet divisor problem using hyperbolic intervals.