On the periodicity of irreducible elements in arithmetical congruence monoids
arXiv:1606.00376
Abstract
Arithmetical congruence monoids, which arise in non-unique factorization theory, are multiplicative monoids consisting of all positive integers satsfying . In this paper, we examine the asymptotic behavior of the set of irreducible elements of , and characterize in terms of and when this set forms an eventually periodic sequence.