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Towards an Enumeration of Finite Common Meadows

Rings and Algebras 2024-06-10 v2

Abstract

Common meadows are commutative and associative algebraic structures with two operations (addition and multiplication) with additive and multiplicative identities and for which inverses are total. The inverse of zero is an error term a\mathbf{a} which is absorbent for addition. We study the problem of enumerating all finite common meadows of \emph{order} nn (that is, common meadows with nn elements). This problem turns out to be deeply connected with both the number of finite rings of order nn and with the number of a certain kind of partition of positive integers.

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@article{arxiv.2401.10631,
  title  = {Towards an Enumeration of Finite Common Meadows},
  author = {João Dias and Bruno Dinis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.10631},
  year   = {2024}
}