Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
A commutative ring R is said to have the n-generator property if each ideal of R can be generated by n elements. Rings with the n-generator property have Krull dimension at most one. In this paper we consider the problem of determining when a one-dimensional monoid ring R[S] has the n-generator property where R is an artinian ring and S is a commutative cancellative monoid. As an application, we explicitly determine when such monoid rings have the three-generator property.