From Ideal Membership Problem for polynomial rings to Dehn Functions of Metabelian Groups

Abstract

The ideal membership problem asks whether an element in the ring belongs to the given ideal. In this paper, we propose a function that reflecting the complexity of the ideal membership problem in the ring of Laurent polynomials with integer coefficients. We also connect the complexity function we define to the Dehn function of a metabelian group, in the hope of constructing a metabelian group with superexponential Dehn function.