Abstract
We describe the associative multilinear polynomial functions over commutative integral domains. This extends Marichal and Mathonet’s result on infinite integral domains and provides a new proof of Andres’s classification of two-element n-semigroups.
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The authors would like to thank Robert Baumann, Thomas Quinn-Gregson, and Nikolaas Verhulst for inspiring discussions and the anonymous reviewer for helpful comments.
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Communicated by Jorge Almeida.
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Lehtonen, E., Starke, F. On associative operations on commutative integral domains. Semigroup Forum 100, 910–915 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00233-019-10044-x
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