Arithmetic of commutative semigroups with a focus on semigroups of ideals and modules

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Abstract: Let H be a commutative semigroup with unit element such that every non-unit can be written as a finite product of irreducible elements (atoms). For every kinmathbbN, let mathscrUk(H) denote the set of all ellinmathbbN with the property that there are atoms u1,ldots,uk,v1,ldots,vell such that u1cdotldotscdotuk=v1cdotldotscdotvell (thus, mathscrUk(H) is the union of all sets of lengths containing k). The Structure Theorem for Unions states that, for all sufficiently large k, the sets mathscrUk(H) are almost arithmetical progressions with the same difference and global bound. We present a new approach to this result in the framework of arithmetic combinatorics, by deriving, for suitably defined families of subsets of the non-negative integers, a characterization of when the Structure Theorem holds. This abstract approach allows us to verify, for the first time, the Structure Theorem for a variety of possibly non-cancellative semigroups, including semigroups of (not necessarily invertible) ideals and semigroups of modules. Furthermore, we provide the very first example of a semigroup (actually, a locally tame Krull monoid) that does not satisfy the Structure Theorem.



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