Inner automorphism conjecture for the large power monoids of the integers

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Let P(Z)\mathcal P(\mathbb Z) and P0(Z)\mathcal P_0(\mathbb Z) denote the large power monoid and reduced large power monoid, respectively, of the additive group Z\mathbb Z. An automorphism of either monoid is inner if it is induced by an automorphism of Z\mathbb Z through the augmentation map.

Inner automorphism conjecture. The automorphisms of P(Z)\mathcal P(\mathbb Z) are all inner, and the automorphisms of P0(Z)\mathcal P_0(\mathbb Z) are all inner.

If true, both automorphism groups would be cyclic of order two, because the only nontrivial automorphism of Z\mathbb Z is xxx\mapsto -x. The conjecture is presented as an open problem, with evidence suggesting that it may hold more generally for broad classes of cancellative commutative monoids.

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Salvatore Tringali and Kerou Wen, “On the automorphisms of the power semigroups of a numerical semigroup”, arXiv:2604.26901 (2026).

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