Geometric and combinatorial aspects of submonoids of a finite-rank free commutative monoid

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Abstract: If mathbbF is an ordered field and M is a finite-rank torsion-free monoid, then one can embed M into a finite-dimensional vector space over mathbbF via the inclusion Mhookrightarrowextgp(M)hookrightarrowmathbbFotimesmathbbZextgp(M), where extgp(M) is the Grothendieck group of M. Let mathcalC be the class consisting of all monoids (up to isomorphism) that can be embedded into a finite-rank free commutative monoid. Here we investigate how the atomic structure and arithmetic properties of a monoid M in mathcalC are connected to the combinatorics and geometry of its conic hull extcone(M)subseteqmathbbFotimesmathbbZextgp(M). First, we show that the submonoids of M determined by the faces of extcone(M) account for all divisor-closed submonoids of M. Then we appeal to the geometry of extcone(M) to characterize whether M is a factorial, half-factorial, and other-half-factorial monoid. Finally, we investigate the cones of finitary, primary, finitely primary, and strongly primary monoids in mathcalC. Along the way, we determine the cones that can be realized by monoids in mathcalC and by finitary monoids in mathcalC.


The author considers commutative, cancellative, reduced monoids \(M\) (written additively), which can be embedded into a finite-dimensional vector space \(V\) over an ordered field. This paper gives a nice overview how arithmetic properties of \(M\) (unique factorization, half-factorial, other-half-factorial, primary, finitary) correspond to geometric properties of the cone, which is generated by \(M\) inside \(V\).



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