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Are there any "simple" monoids with intermediate growth?
The discovery of the Grigorchuk group which has intermediate growth caused a number of other such groups to be found, but they are all fairly complicated, and as far as I know none of them are ...
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A flatness result of Fiedorwicz for amalgamated free products of monoids in connection with classifying spaces of monoids
In Lemma 5.2(a) of Z. Fiedorowicz, Classifying Spaces of Topological Monoids and Categories American Journal of Mathematics Vol. 106, No. 2 (Apr., 1984), pp. 301-350 the author proves the following.
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If a semigroup embeds into a group, then is it a subdirect product of groups?
The title has it all:
Q. If a semigroup $S$ embeds into a group, then is $S$ (isomorphic to) a subdirect product of groups?
If yes, then $S$ is a subdirect product of subdirectly irreducible groups,...
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Does every cancellative duo semigroup embed into a group?
Prompted by the comments to a recent answer by YCor to a related question (here), I'd like to ask the following:
Q. Does every cancellative duo semigroup embed into a group?
A (multiplicatively ...
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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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Monoids and groups of fractions
Let $G$ be a group containing a monoid $M$ that spans $G$ as a group. Is it possible to have a proper quotient $\varphi \colon G \to Q$ of $G$ such that the restriction of $\varphi$ to $M$ is ...
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What are some examples of non-commutative $\mathbb{Q}$-monoids and/or $\mathbb{R}$-monoids?
Definition 0. Let $R$ denote a commutative semiring with $0$ and $1$. By an $R$-monoid, I mean a monoid $M$ equipped with an action $R \times M \rightarrow M$ denoted $r,m \mapsto m^r$, satisfying the ...
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Have semigroups with actions on themselves that have a dual to the compatibility axiom ever been studied?
For a semigroup $G$ with a left action on itself, the axiom for compatibility becomes:
$$
\forall f,g,h\in G:hg(f)=h(g(f))
$$
Now suppose there is additional axiom, or constraint if you prefer, ...
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Regarding a new algebraic structure
By "left semigroup-joined-semigroup" I mean an algebraic structures $(S,\cdot,*)$ such that both $\cdot,*$ are associative, and the following property holds (see this )
$$
x*(y\cdot z)=x*y*z\;\; ; \;...
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Right reversibility of submonoids of nilpotent groups
Let $G$ be a finitely generated group (optionally torsion-free). Let $N$ be a submonoid of $G$ (that is, a subsemigroup with $1$).
A (cancellative) monoid/semigroup $S$ is right reversible if for ...
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Is the group ring of an amenable group, viewed as multiplicative monoid, amenable?
Motivated by this question, it seems natural to ask the following:
Question 1: Is there a [finitely generated discrete] torsion-free virtually Abelian (but not Abelian) group $G$ so that the ...
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Semiring naturally associated to any monoid?
For any monoid $M$, we can naturally construct a semiring $S$ as follows:
Let the additive monoid of $S$ be the free commutative monoid on $M$
Let the multiplicative monoid of $S$ be $M$
Then, if ...
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Has the "semidirect monoid of a semiring" been considered anywhere?
Given a semiring $S$, we get a monoid $M(S)$ as follows:
The underlying set of $S$ is $S^2$
The identity element is $(0,1)$
The law of composition is given by $$(a,A)(b,B) = (Ba+b,AB),$$ where $a,A,b$...
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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] ...
