nLab commutative invertible semigroup

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Idea

There should be an associative version of a commutative invertible magma. That leads to the concept of a commutative invertible semigroup.

Definition

A commutative invertible semigroup is a commutative semigroup (G,()+():G×GG)(G,(-)+(-):G\times G\to G) with a unary operation :GG-:G \to G called the inverse such that a+b+(b)=aa + b + (-b) = a for all a,bGa,b \in G.

With subtraction only

A commutative invertible semigroup is a set GG with a binary operation ()():G×GG(-)-(-):G \times G \to G called subtraction such that:

  • For all aa and bb in GG, aa=bba-a=b-b
  • For all aa in GG, (aa)((aa)a)=a(a-a)-((a-a)-a)=a
  • For all aa and bb in GG, a((bb)b)=b((aa)a)a-((b-b)-b) = b-((a-a)-a)
  • For all aa, bb, and cc in GG, a(bc)=(a((cc)c)ba-(b-c)=(a-((c-c)-c)-b

For any element aa in a commutative invertible semigroup GG, the element aaa-a is called an identity element, and the element (aa)a(a-a)-a is called the inverse element of aa. For all elements aa and bb, addition of aa and bb is defined as a((bb)b)a-((b-b)-b).

Properties

Examples

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