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On the system of length sets of power monoids

Commutative Algebra 2025-08-15 v1

Abstract

The set Pfin,0(N0)\mathcal{P}_{{\rm fin},0}(\mathbb{N}_0) of all finite subsets of N0\mathbb{N}_0 containing the zero element is a monoid with set addition as operation. If a set APfin,0(N0)A\in\mathcal{P}_{{\rm fin},0}(\mathbb{N}_0) can be written in the form A=i=1AiA=\sum_{i=1}^{\ell} A_i with N0\ell\in\mathbb{N}_0 and indecomposable elements (Ai)i=1(A_i)_{i=1}^{\ell} of Pfin,0(N0)\mathcal{P}_{{\rm fin},0}(\mathbb{N}_0), then \ell is a factorization length of AA and L(A)N0\mathsf{L}(A)\subseteq\mathbb{N}_0 denotes the set of all possible factorization lengths of AA. We show that for each rational number q1q\geq 1, there is some APfin,0(N0)A\in\mathcal{P}_{{\rm fin},0}(\mathbb{N}_0) such that q=max(L(A))min(L(A))q=\frac{\max(\mathsf{L}(A))}{\min(\mathsf{L}(A))}. This supports a Conjecture of Fan and Tringali.

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@article{arxiv.2508.10209,
  title  = {On the system of length sets of power monoids},
  author = {Andreas Reinhart},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.10209},
  year   = {2025}
}