On transfer Krull monoids (Q2163864)

Quoting from the authors' abstract, ``The main goal of the present paper is to attempt the first in-depth study of transfer Krull monoids.'' The monoids considered in this paper are cancellative and commutative. A monoid \(H\) is transfer Krull if there exists a transfer homomorphism from \(H\) into a Krull monoid. It is well known that half-factorial monoids and Krull monoids are transfer Krull, and that there are transfer Krull monoids that are neither half-factorial nor Krull. The authors introduce and study property (U): a monoid \(H\) satisfies property (U), if for each overmonoid \(T\) of \(H\) with \(T = HT^{\times}\), where \(T^{\times}\) is the group of units of \(T\), there is a submonoid \(S\) of \(H\) such that \(T = S^{-1}H\). Valuation monoids are characterized as GCD monoids that satisfy property (U). If \(H\) is a monoid such that its root closure \(\widetilde H\) is a discrete valuation monoid (DVM), then \(H\) is transfer Krull \( \Leftrightarrow H\) is half-factorial \( \Leftrightarrow \) \(H\subseteq \widetilde H\) is inert. These equivalences are obtained using property (U). A weakly factorial monoid with Krull root closure is transfer Krull if and only if it is half-factorial (A monoid \(H\) is weakly half-factorial if every non-unit of \(H\) is a finite product of primary elements of \(H\)). Generalized Kaplansky domains that are transfer Krull are necessarily half-factorial. Recall that a domain \(R\) is Cohen-Kaplansky (generalized Cohen-Kaplansky) if \(R\) is atomic and up to associates, \(R\) has only finitely many atoms (that are not prime). Quoting again from the authors' abstract: ``In the last section we touch on the problem of what transfer Krull monoids whose root closure is Krull can look like. We show that none of the aforementioned characterizations in this paper can be applied to monoids whose root closure is Krull. More precisely, we show that such simple descriptions cannot even be gathered for affine monoids''.