Factorization in monoids by stratification of atoms and the Elliott problem

DOI10.2989/16073606.2022.2071776MaRDI QIDQ6132731zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Pedro A. García Sánchez, Ulrich Krause, D. Llena

Publication date 14 July 2023

Published in Quaestiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00455

zbMATH Keywords

Diophantine equationHilbert basisatomic monoidroot-closed monoidElliott problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Commutative semigroups (20M14) Arithmetic theory of semigroups (20M13) Linear Diophantine equations (11D04)

Abstract: In an additive factorial monoid each element can be represented as a linear combination of irreducible elements (atoms) with uniquely determined coefficients running over all natural numbers. In this paper we develop for a wide class of non-factorial monoids a concept of stratification for atoms which allows to represent each element as a linear combination of atoms where the coefficients are uniquely determined when restricted in a particular way. This wide class includes inside factorial monoids and in particular simplicial affine semigroups. In the latter case the question of uniqueness is related to a problem studied by E. B. Elliott in a paper from 1903. For the monoid of all nonnegative solutions of a certain linear Diophantine equation in three variables, Elliott considers "simple sets of solutions" (atoms of the monoid) and looks for a method that gives "every set once only". We show that for simplicial affine semigroups in two dimensions a stratification is always possible, which answers to Elliott's problem also for the cases he left open. The results in this paper on the stratification of atoms for monoids in general may be seen also as an answer to a "generalized Elliott problem".

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