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On global isomorphisms and a closure property of semigroups

Rings and Algebras 2025-10-02 v1 Combinatorics Number Theory

Abstract

Let SS be a semigroup (written multiplicatively). Endowed with the operation of setwise multiplication induced by SS on its parts, the non-empty subsets of SS form themselves a semigroup, denoted by P(S)\mathcal P(S). Accordingly, we say that a semigroup HH is globally isomorphic to a semigroup KK if P(H)\mathcal P(H) is isomorphic to P(K)\mathcal P(K); and that a class C\mathscr C of semigroups is globally closed if a semigroup in C\mathscr C can only be globally isomorphic to an isomorphic copy of a semigroup in the same class. We show that the classes of groups, torsion-free monoids, and numerical monoids are each globally closed. The first result extends a 1967 theorem of Shafer, while the last relies non-trivially on the second and on a classical theorem of Kneser from additive number theory.

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@article{arxiv.2510.00772,
  title  = {On global isomorphisms and a closure property of semigroups},
  author = {Lingxi Li and Salvatore Tringali},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.00772},
  year   = {2025}
}

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