Irreducible divisor pair domains

Abstract

We introduce and study a new class of integral domains which we call irreducible divisor pair domains (IDPDs). In particular, we show how IDPDs fit in with other classes of integral domains defined in terms of factorization conditions. For instance, every UFD is an IDPD, and every IDPD is an HFD, but the converses fail in general. We also show that many familiar examples of HFDs are also IDPDs.