Lifting Canonical Algorithms from a Ring R to the Ring R[x]

Given ample sets in a ring R we define related ample sets in the polynomial ring R[x]. For Noetherian rings we state natural and sufficient conditions for canonical form algorithms to be lifted to canonical form algorithms in R[x]. It is possible then to construct syzygies as well as to perform general division with respect to any finite set in R[x]. The construction is based on the notion of a Szekeres basis.