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Un lemme combinatoire de H. B. Neumann

Combinatorics 2022-03-03 v1

Abstract

We give a notably simpler and shorter proof of H. B. Neumann's result which is stated, cursorly, like this. For any well-ordered subset, A, of a totally ordered semigroup, the set of products of any finite number of elements of A is itself well-ordered. Moreover, for each t, there are only a finite number of such products equal to t.

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@article{arxiv.2203.01119,
  title  = {Un lemme combinatoire de H. B. Neumann},
  author = {Labib Haddad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.01119},
  year   = {2022}
}

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12 pages, French and English versions

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