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On the automorphisms of the power semigroups of a numerical semigroup

Number Theory 2026-04-30 v1 Combinatorics Rings and Algebras

Abstract

If HH is a numerical semigroup (that is, a cofinite subset of the non-negative integers closed under addition), then the non-empty subsets of HH form a semigroup P(H)\mathcal P(H) under the sumset operation induced by addition in HH. Moreover, if 0H0 \in H, then P(H)\mathcal P(H) is a monoid with identity element {0}\{0\}, and the family P0(H)\mathcal P_0(H) of all subsets of HH containing 00 is a submonoid of P(H)\mathcal P(H). We show that the automorphism group of P(H)\mathcal P(H) is trivial, and the same holds for P0(H)\mathcal P_0(H) when 0H0 \in H. 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