Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society Advance Access originally published online on May 7, 2008
Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society 2008 40(4):613-618; doi:10.1112/blms/bdn040
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On minimal distances in Krull monoids with infinite class group
Department of Mathematics
Trinity University
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Institut für Mathematik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen
Karl-Franzens-Univer-sität Graz
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8010 Graz
Austria
wolfgang.schmid@uni-graz.at
Department of Mathematics
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Chapel Hill, NC 27599
USA
wwsmith@email.unc.edu
Received 12 June 2007. Revision received 15 January 2008.
Let H be a Krull monoid with infinite class group such that each divisor class contains a prime divisor. It is shown that for every positive integer n, there exists a divisor closed submonoid S of H such that min
(S) = n.
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification 20K01, 13F05, 11R27.
The second author is supported by the FWF (Project no. P18779 [GenBank] -N13).