arXiv · 1510.05984
Submonoids of the formal power series
Abstract
Formal power series come up in several areas such as formal language theory , algebraic and enumerative combinatorics, semigroup theory, number theory etc. This paper focuses on the set x R[[x]] consisting of formal power series with zero constant term. This subset forms a monoid with the composition operation on series. We classify the sets T of strictly positive integers for which the set of formal power series, R[[x^T]]={all formal power series consisting of terms whose power is from T}, forms a monoid with composition as the operation. We prove that in order for R[[x^T]] to be a monoid, T itself has to be a submonoid of N. Unfortunately, this condition is not enough to guarantee the desired result. But if a monoid is strongly closed, then we get the desired result. We also consider an analogous problem for power series in several variables.
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Edgar Enochs, Overtoun Jenda, Furuzan Ozbek. 2015-10-20. Submonoids of the formal power series. https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.05984
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