The structure of commutative ideal semigroups.
In this paper we study some special residuated lattices, namely, idempotent residuated chains. After giving some properties of Green’s relation on the monoid reduct of an idempotent residuated chain, we establish a structure theorem for idempotent residuated chains. As an application, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for a band with an identity to be the monoid reduct of some idempotent residuated chain. Finally, based on the structure theorem for idempotent residuated chains, we obtain...
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.