English

Counting Finite Magmas

Combinatorics 2023-05-30 v2 Rings and Algebras

Abstract

Given a non-negative integer nn, we establish a formula for the number of finite magmas on a set with cardinality nn up to isomorphism. We then generalize the method to operations with arbitrary finite arity, which yields a corrected version of Harrison's formula. Moreover, we present the cycle index as a helpful tool for practical computations and, based on that, we give a suitable code in Sage with a few generated examples.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2305.00269,
  title  = {Counting Finite Magmas},
  author = {Philip Tureček},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.00269},
  year   = {2023}
}

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