Distances between factorizations in the Chicken McNugget monoid

2019/12/10 by Chapman, Scott, Garcia-Sanchez, Pedro, O'Neill, Christopher · 1 citation
#Combinatorics (math.CO) #Commutative Algebra (math.AC) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1912.04494

Abstract

We use the Chicken McNugget monoid to demonstrate various factorization properties related to relations and chains of factorizations. We study in depth the catenary and tame degrees of this monoid.

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