On the automorphisms of the power semigroups of a numerical semigroup
Number Theory
2026-04-30 v1 Combinatorics
Rings and Algebras
Abstract
If is a numerical semigroup (that is, a cofinite subset of the non-negative integers closed under addition), then the non-empty subsets of form a semigroup under the sumset operation induced by addition in . Moreover, if , then is a monoid with identity element , and the family of all subsets of containing is a submonoid of . We show that the automorphism group of is trivial, and the same holds for when . The proofs blend ideas from combinatorics and semigroup theory.
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@article{arxiv.2604.26901,
title = {On the automorphisms of the power semigroups of a numerical semigroup},
author = {Salvatore Tringali and Kerou Wen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.26901},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
10 pages. To appear in the Transactions of the London Math. Soc