On A Combinatorial Problem Connected withFactorizations
Given an integer , let be pairwise coprime integers , a family of nonempty proper subsets of with “enough” elements, and a function . Does there exist at least one prime such that divides for some , but it does not divide ? We answer this question in the positive when the are prime powers and and are subjected to certain restrictions.We use the result to prove that, if and is a set of three or more primes that contains all prime divisors of any number of the form for...
Let M be a commutative cancellative monoid. The set Δ(M), which consists of all positive integers which are distances between consecutive factorization lengths of elements in M, is a widely studied object in the theory of nonunique factorizations. If M is a Krull monoid with cyclic class group of order n ≥ 3, then it is well-known that Δ(M) ⊆ {1,..., n-2}. Moreover, equality holds for this containment when each class contains a prime divisor from M. In this note, we consider the question of determining...