Indecomposable elements of monoids #
Given a family of elements of a monoid, a member is said to be indecomposable if it cannot be written as a product of two others in a non-trivial way.
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Given a family of elements of an additive monoid, a member is said to be indecomposable if it cannot be written as a sum of two others in a non-trivial way.
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The "base" of a set of points of a monoid relative to a morphism f.
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The "base" of v relative to a morphism f.
In the case that v is the set of roots of a crystallographic root system, and S = ℚ, this is the
base of the root system associated to f.
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Given a finite family of points v in a monoid M, together with a morphism into a
linearly-ordered monoid f : M →* S, the submonoid generated by those points of v which lie in
the "half space" where f > 1 is generated by the subset of such points which are indecomposable
with respect to points in this half space.
Given a finite family of points v in an additive monoid M, together with a
morphism into a linearly-ordered additive monoid f : M →+ S, the submonoid generated by those
points of v which lie in the half space where f > 0 is generated by the subset of such points
which are indecomposable with respect to points in this half space.
If v is the set of roots of a crystallographic root system and S = ℚ, then this is
[Ser87](Ch. V, §9, Lemma 2) and it may be used to prove that the root system has a base.