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Extending $\Bbb N$ to a semiring with isomorphic additive and multiplicative structure

Seen $(\Bbb N,+,\cdot)$ as a semiring, is it possible to extend it to a semiring $(R,+,\cdot)$ so that the additive and multiplicative monoids become isomorphic? This means there is some monoid-...
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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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Reference request: a cousin to the log semiring

Let $f$ be strictly increasing on $\mathbb{R}$. Then $x \oplus y := f^{-1}(f(x)+f(y))$ gives rise to a strict symmetric monoidal ($\Rightarrow$ commutative monoid) structure on $(\mathbb{R},\ge)$ with ...
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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, $b=0$. I ...
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