Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4588799 Journal of Algebra 2007 26 Pages PDF
Abstract

In this paper, we classify the ring of Witt vectors and the necklace ring associated with the formal group law X+Y−qXY up to strict-isomorphism as q varies over the set of integers. We also introduce a q-deformation of the Grothendieck ring of formal power series with constant term 1 over rings in which q⋅1 is a unit. Various bijections related to Witt vectors, necklaces, and formal power series are given. As an application, we provide a q-analogue of the celebrated cyclotomic identity and its bijective proof.

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