Primary ideals and valuation ideals in semigroups (Q1396736)

The authors give semigroup versions of two results (due to R. Gilmer and J. Ohm) about the relationship between primary ideals and valuation ideals in an integral domain. Let \(S\) be a nonzero submonoid of a torsionfree Abelian group. They first show that each valuation ideal of \(S\) is a primary ideal if and only if the set of nonunits of \(S\) is the only prime ideal of \(S\). They then show that if \(S\) satisfies the ascending chain condition on prime ideals, then each primary ideal of \(S\) is a valuation ideal if and only if \(S\) is a valuation semigroup.