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Counting abelian group structures
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Abstract:

A bijective proof is given of a recurrence for the function counting the number of binary operations which endow a finite set with the structure of an abelian group. The proof depends on a lemma in “labelled homological algebra” and provides a simple route to a “curious result” of Philip Hall.
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  • Francis Clarke
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Wales Swansea, Swansea SA2 8PP, Wales
  • Email: F.Clarke@Swansea.ac.uk
  • Received by editor(s): April 15, 2005
  • Published electronically: April 10, 2006
  • Communicated by: Jonathan I. Hall
  • © Copyright 2006 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.
  • Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 134 (2006), 2795-2799
  • MSC (2000): Primary 20K01; Secondary 20D60, 20K35, 20K40
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-06-08396-1
  • MathSciNet review: 2231600