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Bi-atomic classes of positive semirings

Commutative Algebra 2021-03-25 v1

Abstract

Let SS be a nonnegative semiring of the real line, called here a positive semiring. We study factorizations in both the additive monoid (S,+)(S,+) and the multiplicative monoid (S{0},)(S\setminus\{0\}, \cdot). In particular, we investigate when, for a positive semiring SS, both (S,+)(S,+) and (S{0},)(S\setminus\{0\}, \cdot) have the following properties: atomicity, the ACCP, the bounded factorization property (BFP), the finite factorization property (FFP), and the half-factorial property (HFP). It is well known that in the context of cancellative and commutative monoids, the chain of implications HFP \Rightarrow BFP and FFP \Rightarrow BFP \Rightarrow ACCP \Rightarrow atomicity holds. Here we construct classes of positive semirings wherein both the additive and multiplicative structures satisfy each of these properties, and we also give examples to show that, in general, none of the implications in the previous chain is reversible.

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@article{arxiv.2103.13264,
  title  = {Bi-atomic classes of positive semirings},
  author = {Nicholas R. Baeth and Scott T. Chapman and Felix Gotti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.13264},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

19 pages; to appear in Semigroup Forum