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Semiaffine sets in Abelian groups

Group Theory 2023-05-16 v1

Abstract

A subset XX of an Abelian group GG is called semiaf ⁣finesemiaf\!fine if for every x,y,zXx,y,z\in X the set {x+yz,xy+z}\{x+y-z,x-y+z\} intersects XX. We prove that a subset XX of an Abelian group GG is semiaffine if and only if one of the following conditions holds: (1) X=(H+a)(H+b)X=(H+a)\cup (H+b) for some subgroup HH of GG and some elements a,bXa,b\in X; (2) X=(HC)+gX=(H\setminus C)+g for some gGg\in G, some subgroup HH of GG and some midconvex subset CC of the group HH. A subset CC of a group HH is midconvexmidconvex if for every x,yCx,y\in C, the set x+y2:={zH:2z=x+y}\frac{x+y}2:=\{z\in H:2z=x+y\} is a subset of CC.

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@article{arxiv.2305.07905,
  title  = {Semiaffine sets in Abelian groups},
  author = {Iryna Banakh and Taras Banakh and Maria Kolinko and Alex Ravsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.07905},
  year   = {2023}
}

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5 pages

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