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Towards a more precise understanding of sets of lengths
Wolfgang A. Schmid1
1 CMLS, École polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau cedex, France
Actes des rencontres du CIRM, Volume 2 (2010) no. 2, pp. 103-105.

This short survey, based on the content of a talk with the same title, summarizes some classical and recent results on the set of differences of an abelian group. We put a certain emphasize on ongoing joint work of A. Plagne and the author. We also briefly review the relevance of this notion in Non-unique Factorization Theory, in particular towards the subject mentioned in the title.

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DOI: 10.5802/acirm.43
Keywords: Dedekind domain, factorization, Krull monoid, set of differences, set of lengths, zero-sum sequence
Wolfgang A. Schmid 1

1 CMLS, École polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau cedex, France 
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Wolfgang A. Schmid. Towards a more precise understanding of sets of lengths. Actes des rencontres du CIRM, Volume 2 (2010) no. 2, pp. 103-105. doi : 10.5802/acirm.43. https://acirm.centre-mersenne.org/articles/10.5802/acirm.43/

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