On power monoids and their automorphisms

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Autori principali: Tringali, Salvatore, Yan, Weihao
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Pubblicazione: 2023
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author Tringali, Salvatore
Yan, Weihao
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Yan, Weihao
contents Endowed with the binary operation of set addition, the family $\mathcal P_{{\rm fin},0}(\mathbb N)$ of all finite subsets of $\mathbb N$ containing $0$ forms a monoid, with the singleton $\{0\}$ as its neutral element. We show that the only non-trivial automorphism of $\mathcal P_{{\rm fin},0}(\mathbb N)$ is the involution $X \mapsto \max X - X$. The proof leverages ideas from additive number theory and proceeds through an unconventional induction on what we call the boxing dimension of a finite set of integers, that is, the smallest number of (discrete) intervals whose union is the set itself.
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spellingShingle On power monoids and their automorphisms
Tringali, Salvatore
Yan, Weihao
Combinatorics
Number Theory
Rings and Algebras
Endowed with the binary operation of set addition, the family $\mathcal P_{{\rm fin},0}(\mathbb N)$ of all finite subsets of $\mathbb N$ containing $0$ forms a monoid, with the singleton $\{0\}$ as its neutral element. We show that the only non-trivial automorphism of $\mathcal P_{{\rm fin},0}(\mathbb N)$ is the involution $X \mapsto \max X - X$. The proof leverages ideas from additive number theory and proceeds through an unconventional induction on what we call the boxing dimension of a finite set of integers, that is, the smallest number of (discrete) intervals whose union is the set itself.
title On power monoids and their automorphisms
topic Combinatorics
Number Theory
Rings and Algebras
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04439