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A characterisation of atomicity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 April 2023
Abstract
In a 1968 issue of the Proceedings, P. M. Cohn famously claimed that a commutative domain is atomic if and only if it satisfies the ascending chain condition on principal ideals (ACCP). Some years later, a counterexample was however provided by A. Grams, who showed that every commutative domain with the ACCP is atomic, but not vice versa. This has led to the problem of finding a sensible (ideal-theoretic) characterisation of atomicity.
The question (explicitly stated on p. 3 of A. Geroldinger and F. Halter–Koch’s 2006 monograph on factorisation) is still open. We settle it here by using the language of monoids and preorders.
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- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 175 , Issue 2 , September 2023 , pp. 459 - 465
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- © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Cambridge Philosophical Society
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