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REALISABLE SETS OF CATENARY DEGREES OF NUMERICAL MONOIDS

Part of: Semigroups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 December 2017

CHRISTOPHER O’NEILL  and
ROBERTO PELAYO
CHRISTOPHER O’NEILL*
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616, USA email coneill@math.ucdavis.edu
ROBERTO PELAYO
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, University of Hawai‘i at Hilo, Hilo, HI 96720, USA email robertop@hawaii.edu
*
✉coneill@math.ucdavis.edu
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Abstract

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The catenary degree is an invariant that measures the distance between factorisations of elements within an atomic monoid. In this paper, we classify which finite subsets of $\mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}$ occur as the set of catenary degrees of a numerical monoid (that is, a co-finite, additive submonoid of $\mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}$). In particular, we show that, with one exception, every finite subset of $\mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}$ that can possibly occur as the set of catenary degrees of some atomic monoid is actually achieved by a numerical monoid.

Keywords

catenary degreeatomic monoidnumerical monoidnonunique factorisation

MSC classification

Primary: 20M13: Arithmetic theory of monoids
Secondary: 20M14: Commutative semigroups
Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 97 , Issue 2 , April 2018 , pp. 240 - 245
Copyright
© 2017 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

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