The Sch\"utzenberger groups and maximal subgroups of tropical matrices
Group Theory
2025-01-17 v1 Rings and Algebras
Abstract
We classify the Sch\"utzenberger groups of the category of matrices over the tropical semiring, , in doing so, we obtain a classification for the Sch\"utzenberger groups of the semigroupoid of matrices over the finitary tropical semiring, . We then classify the maximal subgroups of the monoid of matrices over the tropical semiring, , for all ; generalising a result in the literature and correcting an erroneous proof. We proceed to show that for some there exists a group which appears as a Sch\"utzenberger group of but does not appear as a maximal subgroup.
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@article{arxiv.2501.09501,
title = {The Sch\"utzenberger groups and maximal subgroups of tropical matrices},
author = {Thomas Aird},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.09501},
year = {2025}
}
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29 pages