ALGEBRAIC PROPERTIES OF FORMAL POWER SERIES COMPOSITION
The study of formal power series is an area of interest that spans many areas of mathematics. We begin by looking at single-variable formal power series with coefficients from a field. By restricting to those series which are invertible with respect to formal composition we form a group. Our focus o...
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UKnowledge
2014
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| Online Access: | http://uknowledge.uky.edu/math_etds/23 http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=math_etds |
| Summary: | The study of formal power series is an area of interest that spans many areas of mathematics. We begin by looking at single-variable formal power series with coefficients from a field. By restricting to those series which are invertible with respect to formal composition we form a group. Our focus on this group focuses on the classification of elements having finite order. The notion of a semi-cyclic group comes up in this context, leading to several interesting results about torsion subgroups of the group. We then expand our focus to the composition of multivariate formal power series, looking at similar questions about classifying elements of finite order. We end by defining a natural automorphism on this group induced by a group action of the symmetric group. |
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