Timeline for Why are so few operations with arity bigger than 2?
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| Jan 26 at 11:08 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Stefan Kohl♦ | ||
| Feb 25, 2017 at 13:12 | comment | added | LSpice | Of course your vector space example is a special case of your group example. | |
| Dec 15, 2010 at 20:31 | comment | added | Carlos Sáez | Right, I was refering to the first part, the affine space example is of the kind I'm looking for. | |
| Dec 14, 2010 at 23:52 | comment | added | David Roberts♦ | 'Twas the first thing I thought of too... | |
| Dec 14, 2010 at 23:13 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | But Carlos, the fundamental operation on an affine space (vector space without an assigned origin) is ternary: it takes a triple $(x, y, z)$ to the fourth point of a parallelogram. Similar remark for torsors. | |
| Dec 14, 2010 at 23:10 | comment | added | Carlos Sáez | I agree with you in the Mal'cev terms, but this is not exactly what I'm asking, since they are not fundamental operations of the algebra, but rather terms defined using the fundamental operations of the algebra. | |
| Dec 14, 2010 at 23:08 | comment | added | arsmath | I knew that I was racing against time with that answer... | |
| Dec 14, 2010 at 23:07 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | I was just about to say this myself... | |
| Dec 14, 2010 at 23:05 | history | answered | arsmath | CC BY-SA 2.5 |