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Matrix decompositions as monoid isomorphisms. Ever considered before?
I've noticed some correspondences between some matrix decompositions and monoid isomorphisms (always to some free commutative monoid), in addition to the one I asked about in a previous question:
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A minimal semigroup generating subset of the additive reals
I asked this on MSE, but I was told to ask it here because it is a difficult question. Consider the additive magma of the real numbers, $(\mathbb{R};+)$. Does there exist a subset $S$ of the reals ...
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Is the monoid of all cancellative finitely generated commutative monoids cancellative?
$\DeclareMathOperator\Mon{Mon}\DeclareMathOperator\Grp{Grp}$Let $\Mon'$ be the set of isomorphism classes of (small) commutative, unital, cancellative ($a + t = b + t$ implies $a = b$) monoids. It is ...
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Zappa-Szép products of the monoid of integers with itself
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What are all the functions $\alpha , \beta : \mathbb{N} \to \mathbb{N}$ satisfying the following functional equations?
$\bullet ~~~~ \alpha(0)=0, \quad \beta(0)=0\\
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On skew monoid rings and skew ordered series rings
To my knowledge (see, e.g., H.H. Brungs and G. Törner's Skew Power Series Rings and Derivations [J. Algebra 87 (1984), 368-379]), skew polynomial rings were first introduced by Ø. Ore in 1933: Given ...
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Is the group ring of an amenable group, viewed as multiplicative monoid, amenable?
Motivated by this question, it seems natural to ask the following:
Question 1: Is there a [finitely generated discrete] torsion-free virtually Abelian (but not Abelian) group $G$ so that the ...
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Do you know rings without involutions, auto-anti-isomorphics? In that case, what is the minimal example?
Do you know rings without involutions, but auto-anti-isomorphic (isomorphic to their opposite)? In that case, what is the minimal example?
If a ring has an involution f, then f is an anti-automorphism;...
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Values attained by the coheight of $(H \setminus H^\times)^k$ as a function of $H$ and $k$
Edit (Apr 24, 2017). I'm updating this post in the light of the latest developments of a related thread.
Let $H$ be a multiplicatively written, commutative monoid, and set $M := H \setminus H^\times$,...
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Ordering the elements of a semigroup by $a \le b$ iff $a=b$ or $b=ab=ba$
Let $S$ be a semigroup, written multiplicatively. The binary relation $\le$ on (the underlying set of) $S$, whose graph consists of all pairs $(a,b) \in S \times S$ such that $a = b$ or $b = ab = ba$, ...
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Semigroups containing an ideal with a local identity
I'm looking for some classes of semigroups containing a (proper) ideal with a local identity (i.e., ideal submonoid). Can somebody give some examples or/and theorems for the followings cases:
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Counting the monic atoms $f$ in the semiring $\mathbf N[x]$ with $f(0)=1$, bounded coefficients, and degree $k$ (in the limit as $k \to \infty$)
Let $H$ be the multiplicative monoid of the (usual) semiring of polynomials in one variable $x$ with coefficients in $\mathbf N$. Given $\alpha, k \in \mathbf N$, denote by $\mathcal A_k(\alpha)$ the ...
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Certain conditions on cancellative semigroups
This is extracted from this question following Benjamin Steinberg's suggestion.
For a semigroup $S,$ let $P(S)$ denote the power semigroup of $S,$ which is made up of all non-empty subsets of $S$ ...
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dual composition of binary relations
I'm not sure if this is of any interest at all, but I spent some time looking at it a couple of years ago so I'd like to ask for input on this.
Given two binary relations $\rho,\,\sigma$ on a set $X,$...
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A recursive description of the smallest divisor-closed subsemigroup containing a set
Let $S$ be a semigroup and $\widehat{S}$ be its unitization, i.e., the monoid obtained from $S$ by adjoining an identity element if necessary (so that $\widehat{S} = S$ when $S$ is already a monoid).
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Embedding a monoid into a group via its monoid ring
Suppose I have a monoid $(M,\, \cdot,\, e)$ equipped with a monoid homomorphism $\textrm{length} : M \rightarrow \mathbb{N}_+$ into the monoid of natural numbers under addition where $e$ is the only ...
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Semigroup ideals of a ring or an algebra
Let $R$ be a ring or an algebra. Suppose $B\subseteq R$ satisfies the property $BR \subseteq B$ and $RB\subseteq B$. Is there a general theory of subsets with this property in a ring (resp. algebra) ...
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A semigroup property related to von Neumann regularity
A very common and useful notion in rings is that of von Neumann regular elements: those elements $a\in R$ such that there exists $b\in R$ satisfying $aba=a$. As this is a property defined solely ...
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What is the difference between a monosemiring and a semigroup?
What is the difference between a monosemiring and a semigroup?
The following definitions are for clarity of my question.
A semigroup $S$ is a non empty set that satisfies closure and associativity ...
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Extensions of an ideal-theoretic criterion for a monoid to be BF
Let $H$ be a multiplicatively written, commutative monoid. We denote by $H^\times$ the set of units (or invertible elements) of $H$, and by $\mathcal A(H)$ the set of atoms (or irreducible elements) ...
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Existence of a canonical embedding from a quotient of $\mathscr{F}^\ast(\mathcal A(H))$ to another
Let $H$ be a multiplicative, commutative monoid, and denote by $H^\times$ the group of units of $H$, by $\mathcal A(H)$ the set of atoms (or irreducible elements) of $H$, by $\mathscr{F}^\ast(\mathcal ...
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Goldie's Theorem for Semigroups
Goldie's theorem is a theorem in noncommutative ring theory that gives a clear picture of semiprime Noetherian rings (actually a slightly broader class). Let $R$ be a semiprime Noetherian ring. The ...
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First isomorphism theorem for inverse semigroups together with v-prehomomorphisms?
In this old paper D. B. McAlister has introduced another class of morphisms for inverse semigroups, called v-prehomomorphisms. For such a morphism $\theta : S \to T,$ instead of preserving the ...
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Free monoids on posets
I've suddenly found myself working with some free monoids $F(S)$ in which the set $S$ is a poset, and the order extends to an order $F(S)$, satisfying
if (but not only if) $s_1, s_2, \ldots, s_r, t_1, ...
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Is every cyclic right action of a cancellative invertible-free monoid on a set isomorphic to the set of shifts of some homography?
The terms are defined in a related question. [1]
Conjecture 1. Let $A$ be a set, $W$ a cancellative invertible-free monoid, and $\cdot\colon A\times W\rightarrow A$ a cyclic right $W$-action generated ...
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How exactly to adapt Brown's collapse from monoids to algebras?
In The Geometry of Rewriting Systems (Springerlink behind paywall), Kenneth Brown describes a method to collapse the bar resolution of a monoid. Roughly:
Given a simplicial set $X$ equipped with a ...
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A generalized Cauchy type functional equation
Let $(S,+)$ be an abelian semigroup . Let $f:S \to \mathbb C$ be a function such that for some positive integer $n>1$, $f(x+y)^n=(f(x)+f(y))^n,\forall x,y \in S$.
Then is it true that $f(x+y)=f(x)...
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Quotient of monoids and monoid algebras
Let $ X $ be a monoid and $ R $ be a (two-sided) congruence relation on $ X $ which is generated by some relations $ u_i \equiv_R v_i $ for any $ i $ in some index set $ J $. Let $ K $ be a field, $ K[...
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Has this theorem on cancellative monoid actions been discovered and published?
Does a statement equivalent to Theorem 3 below appear in the literature? If it does, what is the earliest published reference?
Theorem 1. Let $W$ be a non-trivial cancellative invertible-free [1] ...
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A semifield of characteristic zero may have a finite number of elements
A commutative semiring $(S, +, \cdot, 0, 1)$ with unity is said to be a semifield if for all $a, b\in S$, $a+b=0$ implies that $a=0$ and $b=0$, and $a.b=0$ implies that either $a=0$ or, $b=0$.
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Spherical Rings
My question is concerned with filtered rings. It is a classical result that if $R$ is a finitely generated commutative ring graded by a semigroup $S$ then $S$ is also finitely generated.
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Decomposition results for locally commutative semigroups
Every finite abelian group is the direct product of its cyclic groups of prime order, and every commutative monoid divides a product of its cyclic submonoids. Could these results generalized to ...
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