An Elementary Approach to Subresultants Theory

Abstract

In this paper we give an elementary approach to univariate polynomial subresultants theory. Most of the known results of subresultants are recovered, some with more precision, without using Euclidean divisions or existence of roots for univariate polynomials. The main contributions of this paper are not new results on subresultants, but rather extensions of the main results over integral rings to arbitrary commutative rings