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A Note on Almost GCD Monoids
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A Note on Almost GCD Monoids

D.D Anderson and Muhammad Zafrullah
Semigroup Forum, Vol.69(1), pp.141-154
06/2004
DOI: 10.1007/s00233-004-0119-z

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Abstract

A commutative cancellative monoid H (with 0 adjoined) is called an almost GCD (AGCD) monoid if for x,y in H, there exists a natural number n = n(x,y) so that xn and yn have an LCM, that is, xnH \cap ynH is principal. We relate AGCD monoids to the recently introduced inside factorial monoids (there is a subset Q of H so that the submonoid F of H generated by Q and the units of H is factorial and some power of each element of H is in F). For example, we show that an inside factorial monoid H is an AGCD monoid if and only if the elements of Q are primary in H, or equivalently, H is weakly Krull, distinct elements of Q are v-coprime in H, or the radical of each element of Q is a maximal t-ideal of H. Conditions are given for an AGCD monoid to be inside factorial and the results are put in the context of integral domains.
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