A generalization by Kronecker of Kummer's theory of prime ideal factors. A divisor on a full subcategory 
of mod(
) is an additive mapping 
on 
with values in a semigroup of
ideals on 
.
Divisor Theory
See also
Ideal, Ideal Number, Prime Ideal, SemigroupExplore with Wolfram|Alpha
References
Edwards, H. M. Divisor Theory. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser, 1989.Vasconcelos, W. V. Divisor Theory in Module Categories. Amsterdam, Netherlands: North-Holland, pp. 63-64, 1974.Referenced on Wolfram|Alpha
Divisor TheoryCite this as:
Weisstein, Eric W. "Divisor Theory." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/DivisorTheory.html