Hereditary atomicity and ACCP in abelian groups

arXiv2303.01039MaRDI QIDQ6428152FDOQ6428152

Authors: Felix Gotti 

Publication date: 2 March 2023

Abstract: A cancellative and commutative monoid $M$ is atomic if every non-invertible element of $M$ factors into irreducibles (also called atoms), and $M$ is hereditarily atomic if every submonoid of $M$ is atomic. In addition, $M$ is hereditary ACCP if every submonoid of $M$ satisfies the ascending chain condition on principal ideals (ACCP). Our primary purpose in this paper is to determine which abelian groups are hereditarily atomic. In doing so, we discover that in the class of abelian groups the properties of being hereditarily atomic and being hereditary ACCP are equivalent. Once we have determined the abelian groups that are hereditarily atomic, we will use this knowledge to determine the commutative group algebras that are hereditarily atomic, that is, the commutative group algebras satisfying that all their subrings are atomic. The interplay between atomicity and the ACCP is a subject of current active investigation. Throughout our journey, we will discuss several examples connecting (hereditary) atomicity and the ACCP, including, for each integer $d$ with $dge2$, a construction of a rank-$d$ additive submonoid of $mathbb{Z}^d$ that is atomic but does not satisfy the ACCP.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordered abelian groups, Riesz groups, ordered linear spaces (06F20) Group rings (16S34) Semigroup rings, multiplicative semigroups of rings (20M25) Group rings of infinite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C07) Divisibility and factorizations in commutative rings (13A05) Torsion-free groups, finite rank (20K15)

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