Abstract
AbstractThe aim of this article is to study the ideal class monoid $${\mathscr {C}}\ell (S)$$
C
ℓ
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S
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of a numerical semigroup S introduced by V. Barucci and F. Khouja. We prove new bounds on the cardinality of $${\mathscr {C}}\ell (S)$$
C
ℓ
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S
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. We observe that $${\mathscr {C}}\ell (S)$$
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ℓ
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S
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is isomorphic to the monoid of ideals of S whose smallest element is 0, which helps to relate $${\mathscr {C}}\ell (S)$$
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ℓ
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S
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to the Apéry sets and the Kunz coordinates of S. We study some combinatorial and algebraic properties of $${\mathscr {C}}\ell (S)$$
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ℓ
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S
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, including the reduction number of ideals, and the Hasse diagrams of $${\mathscr {C}}\ell (S)$$
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ℓ
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S
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with respect to inclusion and addition. From these diagrams, we can recover some notable invariants of the semigroup. Finally, we prove some results about irreducible elements, atoms, quarks, and primes of $$({\mathscr {C}}\ell (S),+)$$
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C
ℓ
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S
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,
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. Idempotent ideals coincide with over-semigroups and idempotent quarks correspond to unitary extensions of the semigroup. We show that a numerical semigroup is irreducible if and only if $${\mathscr {C}}\ell (S)$$
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ℓ
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S
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has at most two quarks.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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