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Positional numeral systems over polyadic rings

Number Theory 2026-05-04 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP Rings and Algebras Quantum Physics

Abstract

We construct positional numeral systems that work natively over nonderived polyadic (m,n)\left( m,n\right) -rings whose addition takes mm arguments and multiplication takes nn. In such rings, the length of an admissible additive word and a multiplicative tower are not arbitrary (as in the binary case), but "quantized". Our main contributions are the following. Existence: every commutative (m,n)\left( m,n\right) -ring admits a base-pp place-value expansion that respects the word length constraint in terms of numbers of operation compositions mult=add(m1)+1\ell_{mult}=\ell_{add}(m-1)+1. Lower bound: the minimum number of digits is greater than or equal to the arity of addition mm. Representability gap: for m,n3m,n\geq3 only a proper subset of ring elements possess finite expansions, characterized by congruence-class arity shape invariants I(m)I^{(m)} and J(n)J^{(n)}. Mixed-base "polyadic clocks": allowing a different base at each position enlarges the design space quadratically in the digit count. Catalogues: explicit tables for the integer rings Z4,3\mathbb{Z}_{4,3} and Z6,5\mathbb{Z}_{6,5} illustrate how ordinary integers lift to distinct polyadic variables. These results lay the groundwork for faster arity-aware arithmetic, exotic coding schemes, and hardware that exploits operations beyond the binary pair.

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@article{arxiv.2506.12930,
  title  = {Positional numeral systems over polyadic rings},
  author = {Steven Duplij},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.12930},
  year   = {2026}
}

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