Taming the wild in impartial combinatorial games.
The concept of rank of a commutative cancellative semigroup is extended to all commutative semigroups by defining as the supremum of cardinalities of finite independent subsets of . Representing such a semigroup as a semilattice of (archimedean) components , we prove that is the supremum of ranks of various . Representing a commutative separative semigroup as a semilattice of its (cancellative) archimedean components, the main result of the paper provides several characterizations...
Local tameness and the finiteness of the catenary degree are two crucial finiteness conditions in the theory of non-unique factorizations in monoids and integral domains. In this note, we refine the notion of local tameness and relate the resulting invariants with the usual tame degree and the -invariant. Finally we present a simple monoid which fails to be locally tame and yet has nice factorization properties.