On the finiteness of certain factorization invariants

DOI10.4310/ARKIV.2024.V62.N1.A2MaRDI QIDQ6424244zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Laura Cossu, Salvatore Tringali

Publication date 24 January 2023

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4310/ARKIV.2024.V62.N1.A2

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Word problems (aspects of algebraic structures) (08A50) Divisibility and factorizations in commutative rings (13A05) Free semigroups, generators and relations, word problems (20M05) Arithmetic theory of semigroups (20M13) Commutative semigroups (20M14)

Abstract: Let $H$ be a monoid, $mathscrF(X)$ be the free monoid on a set $X$, and $p{i}_H$ be the unique extension of the identity map on $H$ to a monoid homomorphism $mathscrF(H)oH$. Given $AsubseteqH$, an $A$-word $mathfrakz$ (i.e., an element of $mathscrF(A)$) is minimal if $p{i}_H(mathfrakz)ep{i}_H(mathfrak{z}^{\prime })$ for every permutation $mathfrak{z}^{\prime }$ of a proper subword of $mathfrakz$. The minimal $A$-elasticity of $H$ is then the supremum of all rational numbers $m/n$ with $m,ninmathbb{N}^{+}$ such that there exist minimal $A$-words $mathfraka$ and $mathfrakb$ of length $m$ and $n$, resp., with $p{i}_H(mathfraka)=p{i}_H(mathfrakb)$. Most notably, we show that if $H$ is commutative and $A$ is finite, then the minimal $A$-elasticity of $H$ is finite. This yields a non-trivial generalization of the finiteness part of a classical theorem of Anderson et al. (namely, Theorem 7 in [Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 117 (1993), 37-43]) from the case where $H$ is cancellative, commutative, and finitely generated (f.g.) modulo units and $A$ is the set $mathscrA(H)$ of its atoms. We also check that commutativity is somewhat essential here, by proving the existence of an atomic, cancellative, f.g. monoid with trivial group of units whose minimal $mathscrA(H)$-elasticity is infinite.

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