On the asymptotic behavior of unions of sets of lengths in atomic monoids.

DOI10.2140/INVOLVE.2008.1.101MaRDI QIDQ940964zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paul Baginski, Scott T. Chapman, Natalie Hine, João Paixão

Publication date 4 September 2008

Published in Involve (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2140/involve.2008.1.101

zbMATH Keywords

commutative cancellative atomic monoidselasticities of factorizationsirreducible elementslengths of factorizationsnonunique factorizationsunions of sets of lengths

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other combinatorial number theory (11B75) Dedekind, Prüfer, Krull and Mori rings and their generalizations (13F05) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Free semigroups, generators and relations, word problems (20M05) Commutative semigroups (20M14)

Review text

Let \(M\) be a commutative multiplicative cancellative atomic monoid. For \(a\in M^*\) let \(L(a)\subset\mathbb{N}\) denote the set of all lengths of factorizations of \(a\) into atoms. For \(n\in\mathbb{N}\), let \(\mathcal V(n)\) be the union of all sets \(L(a)\) for \(a\in M^*\) with \(n\in L(a)\) and \(\Phi(n)=|\mathcal V(n)|\). Let \(\rho(M)\) denote the elasticity of \(M\) (for basic concepts and results of factorization theory see [\textit{A. Geroldinger} and \textit{F. Halter-Koch}, Non-unique factorizations. Algebraic, combinatorial and analytic theory. Pure Appl. Math. 278. Boca Raton: Chapman \& Hall/CRC (2006; Zbl 1113.11002)]). If \(\rho(M)<\infty\), then \(\Phi(n)<\infty\) for all \(n\in\mathbb{N}\), and the authors provide upper and lower bounds for the \(\liminf\) and the \(\limsup\) of \(\Phi(n)/n\) in terms of the maximal and minimal size of gaps in some set \(\mathcal V(n)\). If \(M\) is a Krull monoid with finite class group \(G\) such that every class contains a prime, there is a more precise result concerning the limit of \(\Phi(n)/n\) in terms of the Davenport constant of \(G\) [\textit{S. T. Chapman} and \textit{W. W. Smith}, J. Number Theory 43, No. 1, 24-30 (1993; Zbl 0765.11043)].

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