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Reconstructing multisets over commutative groupoids and affine functions over nonassociative semirings

Combinatorics 2016-11-22 v2

Abstract

A reconstruction problem is formulated for multisets over commutative groupoids. The cards of a multiset are obtained by replacing a pair of its elements by their sum. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the reconstructibility of multisets are determined. These results find an application in a different kind of reconstruction problem for functions of several arguments and identification minors: classes of linear or affine functions over nonassociative semirings are shown to be weakly reconstructible. Moreover, affine functions of sufficiently large arity over finite fields are reconstructible.

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@article{arxiv.1302.7109,
  title  = {Reconstructing multisets over commutative groupoids and affine functions over nonassociative semirings},
  author = {Erkko Lehtonen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.7109},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

18 pages. Int. J. Algebra Comput. (2014)

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