Start:
7.3.2016
End:
6.7.2019
Project leader:
Alfred Geroldinger
FWF project number:
P 28864-N35

Participants

Alfred Geroldinger, Ao.Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.
Professor
E-Mail:
alfred.geroldinger@uni-graz.at
Phone:
+43 (0)316 380 - 5154
Office:
Heinrichstraße 36, Room 526 (4th floor)
Homepage:
https://imsc.uni-graz.at/geroldinger
Qinghai Zhong, Dr.
Postdoc
E-Mail:
qinghai.zhong@uni-graz.at
Phone:
+43 (0)316 380 - 5155
Office:
Heinrichstraße 36, Room 528 (4th floor)
Homepage:
https://imsc.uni-graz.at/zhong

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Project summary

Let $H$ be a Krull monoid with finite class group $G$ such that each class contains a prime divisor (this setting includes holomorphy rings in global fields). Then every nonunit $a \in H$ can be written as a finite product of atoms (irreducible elements). If $a = u_1 \cdot \ldots \cdot u_k$ with atoms $u_1, \ldots, u_k \in H$, then $k$ is called the length of the factorization. The set $\mathsf L (a)$ of all possible factorization lengths $k$ is called the set of lengths of $a$, and this is a finite set of positive integers. We consider the system $\mathcal L (H) = \{ \mathsf L (a) \mid a \in H\}$ of sets of lengths of $H$ (for convenience, we set $\mathsf L (a) = \{0\}$ if $a$ is a unit in $H$). The Krull monoid $H$ is factorial if and only if the class group $G$ is trivial. Furthermore, $H$ is half-factorial (i.e., $|L|=1$ for all $L \in \mathcal L (H)$) if and only if $|G| \le 2$. If $|G| \ge 3$, then for every $N \in \mathbb N$ there is a set $L \in \mathcal L (H)$ such that $|L| \ge N$.

The system $\mathcal L (H)$ depends only on the class group $G$. To make this precise, consider the set $\mathcal B (G)$ of zero-sum sequences over $G$. By a sequence over $G$, we mean a finite sequence of terms from $G$ where repetition is allowed and the order is disregarded, and we say that $S$ is a zero-sum sequence if its terms sum up to zero. Defining an operation as the concatenation of sequences we obtain a monoid structure on $\mathcal B (G)$. Indeed, $\mathcal B (G)$ is a Krull monoid with class group isomorphic to $G$ (provided that $|G| \ge 3$) and every class contains a prime divisor. Moreover, the systems of sets of lengths of $H$ and that of $\mathcal B (G)$ coincide. Thus $\mathcal L (H) = \mathcal L \big( \mathcal B (G) \big)$ can be studied with methods from Zero-Sum Theory, a flourishing subfield of Additive Combinatorics.

The Structure Theorem for Sets of Lengths states that every $L \in \mathcal L (G)$ is an almost arithmetical multiprogression with universal bounds for all parameters controlling these multiprogressions. It is a main goal of the present project to study the involved parameters (such as the possible differences of the multiprogressions) in terms of classical zero-sum invariants (such as the Davenport constant of $G$) or even in terms of the group invariants. All work on these parameters will be done with a view towards the Characterization Problem, a main open question in this area. Indeed, let $G$ and $G'$ be two finite abelian groups with $|G|\ge 4$ and $|G'|\ge 4$ and suppose that $\mathcal L \big( \mathcal B (G) \big) = \mathcal L \big( \mathcal B (G') \big)$. Does it follow that $G$ and $G'$ are isomorphic? The answer is affirmative, among others, if $G$ or $G'$ has rank at most two (see [A. Geroldinger and W. Schmid, A characterization of class groups via sets of lengths, J. Korean Math. Society, 56 (2019), 869 -- 915]). However, the Characterization Problem is far open in general, and it will be in the focus of the the present project.

Publications

  1. A. Geroldinger
    Sets of lengths.
    Amer. Math. Monthly, 123 (2016), 960-988.
  2. A. Geroldinger, W. Schmid and Qinghai Zhong
    Systems of Sets of Lengths: Transfer Krull Monoids versus Weakly Krull Monoids.
    In Rings, Polynomials, and Modules, 191-235. Springer, 2017.
  3. A. Geroldinger and Qinghai Zhong
    Long sets of lengths with maximal elasticity.
    Canadian Journal of Mathematics, 70(2018),1284-1318.
  4. Qinghai Zhong
    Sets of minimal distances and characterizations of class groups of Krull monoids.
    The Ramanujan Journal, 45 (2018), 719-737.
  5. A. Geroldinger and Emil Daniel Schwab
    Sets of lengths in atomic unit-cancellative finitely presented monoids.
    Colloquium Math., 151 (2018), 171-187.
  6. Qinghai Zhong
    A characterization of finite abelian groups via sets of lengths in transfer Krull monoids.
    Communications in Algebra, 46 (2018), 4021-4041.
  7. A. Geroldinger and W. Schmid
    A realization theorem for sets of lengths in numerical monoids.
    Forum Math., 30 (2018), 1111-1118.
  8. A. Geroldinger and W. Schmid
    Which sets are sets of lengths in all numerical monoids.
    Banach Center Publications, 118 (2019), 181-192.
  9. A. Geroldinger and Qinghai Zhong
    Sets of arithmetical invariants in transfer Krull monoids.
    J. Pure Appl. Algebra, 223 (2019), 3889-3918.
  10. Qinghai Zhong
    On elasticities of locally finitely generated monoids.
    J. Algebra, 534 (2019), 145-167.
  11. A. Geroldinger and Moshe Roitman
    On strongly primary monoids and domains.
    Communications in Algebra, 48 (2020), 4085-4099.
  12. A. Geroldinger and Qinghai Zhong
    A characterization of seminormal C-monoids.
    Boll. Unione Ital. Mat., 12 (2019), 583-597.
  13. Qinghai Zhong
    On the arithmetic of Mori monoids and domains.
    Glasg. Math. J., 62 (2020), 313-322.
  14. A. Geroldinger and W. Schmid
    A characterization of Krull monoids for which sets of lengths are (almost) arithmetical progressions.
    Revista Matematica Iberoamericana, 37 (2020), 293-316.
  15. JunSeok Oh and Qinghai Zhong
    On minimal product-one sequences of maximal length over Dihedral and Dicyclic groups.
    Commun. Korean Math. Soc., 35 (2020), 83-116.
  16. Y. Li and Qinghai Zhong
    Clean group rings over localizations of rings of integers.
    J. Pure Appl. Algebra, 224 (2020), 106284.
  17. J. Brantner, A. Geroldinger, and A. Reinhart
    On monoids of ideals of orders in quadratic number fields.
    In Rings and Factorizations, Springer, 2020, 11-54.
  18. Jun Seok Oh and Qinghai Zhong
    On Erdős-Ginzburg-Ziv inverse theorems for Dihedral and Dicyclic groups.
    Israel Journal of Mathematics, 238 (2020), 715-743.
  19. A. Geroldinger and Qinghai Zhong
    Factorization theory in commutative monoids.
    Semigroup Forum, 100 (2020), 22-51.