The monotone catenary degree of monoids of ideals

Abstract

Factoring ideals in integral domains is a central topic in multiplicative ideal theory. In the present paper, we study monoids of ideals and consider factorizations of ideals into multiplicatively irreducible ideals. The focus is on the monoid of nonzero divisorial ideals and on the monoid of [Formula: see text]-invertible divisorial ideals in weakly Krull Mori domains. Under suitable algebraic finiteness conditions, we establish arithmetical finiteness results, in particular, for the monotone catenary degree and for the structure of sets of lengths and of their unions.