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Longest and Shortest Factorizations in Embedding Dimension Three

Commutative Algebra 2023-11-08 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

For a numerical monoid n1,,nk\langle n_1, \dots, n_k \rangle minimally generated by n1,,nkNn_1, \dots, n_k \in \mathbb{N} with n1<<nkn_1 < \cdots < n_k, the longest and shortest factorization lengths of an element xx, denoted as L(x)L(x) and (x)\ell(x), respectively, follow the identities L(x+n1)=L(x)+1L(x+n_1) = L(x) + 1 and (x+nk)=(x)+1\ell(x+n_k) = \ell(x) + 1 for sufficiently large elements xx. We characterize when these identities hold for all elements of numerical monoids of embedding dimension three.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2209.12113,
  title  = {Longest and Shortest Factorizations in Embedding Dimension Three},
  author = {Baian Liu and JiaYan Yap},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.12113},
  year   = {2023}
}
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