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This paper surveys some classical results about growth in finitely generated semigroups and applies results from additive number theory to construct families of finitely generated linear semigroups with intermediate growth.
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Nathanson, M.B. (2014). Additive Number Theory and Linear Semigroups with Intermediate Growth. In: Nathanson, M. (eds) Combinatorial and Additive Number Theory. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 101. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1601-6_13
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