From: Andrej Bauer <Andrej.Bauer@fmf.uni-lj.si>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Small semirings
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:09:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8313.01743533022$1241019381@news.gmane.org> (raw)
Dear categorists,
I have no idea where to ask the following algebra question. Hoping that
some of you are algebraists, I am asking it here.
I am looking for examples of small (finite and with few elements, say up
to 8) commutative semirings with unit, by which I mean an algebraic
structure which has +, *, 0 and 1, both operations are commutative and *
distributes over +. The initial such structure are the natural numbers.
Here are the examples I know:
1) Modular arithmetic, i.e., (Z_n, +, *, 0, 1)
2) Distributive lattices with 0 and 1.
3) "Cut-off" semiring, in which we compute like with natural numbers,
but if a value exceeds a given constant N, then we cut it off at N. For
example, if N = 7 then we would have 3 + 3 = 6, 3 + 6 = 7, 4 * 4 = 7,
etc. Do such semirings have a name?
There must be a census of small commutative rings, or even semirings.
Does anyone know?
Andrej
next reply other threads:[~2007-01-03 22:09 UTC|newest]
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2007-01-03 22:09 Andrej Bauer [this message]
2007-01-04 16:52 Marco Grandis
2007-01-04 21:26 Vaughan Pratt
2007-01-05 0:25 Josh Nichols-Barrer
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