Semirings and their Applications - Jonathan S. Golan

Semirings and their Applications

Buch | Hardcover
382 Seiten
1999
Springer (Verlag)
978-0-7923-5786-5 (ISBN)
139,09 inkl. MwSt
Includes results in semirings and their applications, as well as further applications of semiring theory in such areas as idempotent analysis, discrete dynamical systems, formal language theory, fuzzy set theory, and optimization. This book is suitable for mathematicians and researchers in applied mathematics and theoretical computer science.
There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world. - Nikolai Ivanovich Lobatchevsky This book is an extensively-revised and expanded version of "The Theory of Semirings, with Applicationsin Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science" [Golan, 1992], first published by Longman. When that book went out of print, it became clear - in light of the significant advances in semiring theory over the past years and its new important applications in such areas as idempotent analysis and the theory of discrete-event dynamical systems - that a second edition incorporating minor changes would not be sufficient and that a major revision of the book was in order. Therefore, though the structure of the first «dition was preserved, the text was extensively rewritten and substantially expanded. In particular, references to many interesting and applications of semiring theory, developed in the past few years, had to be added. Unfortunately, I find that it is best not to go into these applications in detail, for that would entail long digressions into various domains of pure and applied mathematics which would only detract from the unity of the volume and increase its length considerably. However, I have tried to provide an extensive collection of examples to arouse the reader's interest in applications, as well as sufficient citations to allow the interested reader to locate them. For the reader's convenience, an index to these citations is given at the end of the book .

1. Hemirings and semirings: definitions and examples.- 2. Sets and relations with values in a semiring.- 3. Building new semirings from old.- 4. Some conditions on semirings.- 5. Complemented elements in semirings.- 6. Ideals in semirings.- 7. Prime and semiprime ideals in semirings.- 8. Factor semirings.- 9. Morphisms of semirings.- 10. Kernels of morphisms.- 11. Semirings of fractions.- 12. Euclidean semirings.- 13. Additively-regular semirings.- 14. Semimodules over semirings.- 15. Factor semimodules.- 16. Some constructions for semimodules.- 17. Free, projective, and injective semimodules.- 18. Localization of semimodules.- 19. Linear algebra over a semiring.- 20. Partially-ordered semirings.- 21. Lattice-ordered semirings.- 22. Complete semirings.- 23. Complete semimodules.- 24. CLO-semirings.- 25. Fixed points of affine maps.- References.- Index of applications.- Index of terminology.

Zusatzinfo XII, 382 p.
Verlagsort Dordrecht
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Algebra
ISBN-10 0-7923-5786-8 / 0792357868
ISBN-13 978-0-7923-5786-5 / 9780792357865
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