Operators on generalized power series (Q1347348)

The ring of series constructed on a ring \(C\) with the monomials from a totally ordered set (or a partially ordered set) \(M\) has been studied by H. Hahn (respectively by G. Higman) in 1907 (respectively in 1952). If \(C\) is a field and \(M\) is a totally ordered group, then Hahn proved that this ring is a field. In this paper, the author develops an operator theory for generalized power series of the above form. He considers the linear and multilinear cases, then the case of Noetherian operators on the ring of series, for which he proves an implicit function theorem that can be used for explicitly solving general types of functional equations.