Elasticity of factorizations in atomic monoids and integral domains
For an atomic domain , its elasticity is defined by : for irreducible . We study the elasticity of one-dimensional noetherian domains by means of the more subtle invariants defined by : for irreducible . As a main result we characterize all orders in algebraic number fields having finite elasticity. On the way, we obtain a series of results concerning the invariants and for monoids and integral domains which are of independent interest.