IRREDUCIBILITY OF HURWITZ POLYNOMIALS OVER THE RING OF INTEGERS

Let ${\mathbb{Z}}$ be the ring of integers and ${\mathbb{Z}}[X]$ (resp., $h({\mathbb{Z}})$) be the ring of polynomials (resp., Hurwitz polynomials) over ${\mathbb{Z}}$. In this paper, we study the irreducibility of Hurwitz polynomials in $h({\mathbb{Z}})$. We give a sufficient condition for Hurwitz polynomials in $h({\mathbb{Z}})$ to be irreducible, and we then show that $h({\mathbb{Z}})$ is not isomorphic to ${\mathbb{Z}}[X]$. By using a relation between usual polynomials in ${\mathbb{Z}}[X]$ and Hurwitz polynomials in $h({\mathbb{Z}})$, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for Hurwitz polynomials over ${\mathbb{Z}}$ to be irreducible under additional conditions on the coefficients of Hurwitz polynomials.