An Ore extension of a unital ring is certain generalization of the ring of polynomials in one variable with coefficients in . While keeping the left -module structure intact, unlike in the polynomial ring, the coefficients in and the indeterminate do not need to commute, but rather commute up to a skew-derivation. A skew-polynomial ring is a special case.
Given an endomorphism , a -derivation is an additive map satisfying the -twisted Leibniz rule
If is an injective endomorphism of , and a -derivation then the free left -module underlying the ring of polynomials in one variable is equipped with the unique multiplication rule which is making it into a unital ring, extends and such that
with this ring structure is called the Ore extension of . If identically, then we say that is a skew polynomial ring.
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