| dc.description.abstract | The motivation of this thesis is to answer a question asked by Professor M.-G. Leu: To find pairs (b,a) in the ring of algebraic integers in Q (√-19) such that there exists no terminating division chain of finite length starting from the pairs (b, a). For this purpose, we study Cohn′s paper [On the structure of the GL2 of a ring, Inst. Hautes Études Sci. Publ. Math. 30 (1966) 5-53] from Section 1 to Theorem 6.1 of Section 6 and obtain the positive answer fortunately, since Theorem 6.1 is a key clue. That is that we introduce a method to construct explicitly pairs (b, a) of integers in Od, the ring of algebraic integers of Q(√-d), for d = 19, 43, 67, and 163 such that they generate Od and there exists no terminating division chain of finite length starting from them. In addition, we derive some other results: We will prove that an ω-stage Euclidean ring is generalized Euclidean. Also, we give counterexamples to some arguments which were mentioned by Cohn in the paper above. | en_US |