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Seghal posed the following question: IfA andB are rings, doesA[X,X −1] ℞B[X,X −1] implyA ℞B. In general the answer to this question is no. In this note we give an affirmative answer in the case thatA andB are Dedekind rings.
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Van Den Bergh, M. Group rings over Dedekind rings. Israel J. Math. 61, 295–300 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02772574
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