Division by zero in common meadows

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Authors
Publication date 2015
Host editors
  • R. De Nicola
  • R. Hennicker
Book title Software, Services, and Systems
Book subtitle essays dedicated to Martin Wirsing on the occasion of his retirement from the Chair of Programming and Software Engineering
ISBN
  • 9783319155449
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783319155456
Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8950
Pages (from-to) 46-61
Publisher Cham: Springer
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
Abstract Common meadows are fields expanded with a total inverse function. Division by zero produces an additional value denoted with "a" that propagates through all operations of the meadow signature (this additional value can be interpreted as an error element). We provide a basis theorem for so-called common cancellation meadows of characteristic zero, that is, common meadows of characteristic zero that admit a certain cancellation law.
Document type Chapter
Note Appeared earlier as arXiv:1406.6878 [math.RA]
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15545-6_6
Published at https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.6878
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