Inversion formula for the growth function of a cancellative monoid.

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Abstract: We consider any cancellative monoid M equipped with a discrete degree map deg:MoRge0 and associated generating function P(t)=summinMtdeg(m), called the growth function of M. We also introduce, using some towers of minimal common multiple sets in M, another signed generating function N(t), called the skew-growth function of M. We show that these functions satisfy the inversion formula P(t)N(t)=1. In case the monoid is the set of positive integers with ordinary product structure and the degree map is logarithm function, using the coordinate change t=exp(−s), the inversion formula turns out to be the Euler product formula for the Riemann's zeta function.











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