Autor según el artículo: Bras-Amoros, Maria;

Departamento: Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques

Autor/es de la URV: Bras Amoros, Maria

Palabras clave: Tempered monoid Numerical semigroup Musical harmonics Music Monoids Logarithm Increasing enumeration Golden ratio Fractal Equal temperament

Resumen: This paper deals with the algebraic structure of the sequence of harmonics when combined with equal temperaments. Fractals and the golden ratio appear surprisingly on the way. The sequence of physical harmonics is an increasingly enumerable sub-monoid of (R+,+) whose pairs of consecutive terms get arbitrarily close as they grow. These properties suggest the definition of a new mathematical object which we denote a tempered monoid. Mapping the elements of the tempered monoid of physical harmonics from R to N may be considered tantamount to defining equal temperaments. The number of equal parts of the octave in an equal temperament corresponds to the multiplicity of the related numerical semigroup. Analyzing the sequence of musical harmonics we derive two important properties that tempered monoids may have: that of being product-compatible and that of being fractal. We demonstrate that, up to normalization, there is only one product-compatible tempered monoid, which is the logarithmic monoid, and there is only one nonbisectional fractal monoid which is generated by the golden ratio. The example of half-closed cylindrical pipes imposes a third property to the sequence of musical harmonics, the so-called odd-filterability property. We prove that the maximum number of equal divisions of the octave such that the discretizations of the golden fractal monoid and the logarithmic monoid coincide, and such that the discretization is odd-filterable is 12. This is nothing else but the number of equal divisions of the octave in classical Western music.

Áreas temáticas: Mathematics Matemática / probabilidade e estatística Engenharias iv Algebra and number theory

Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 00371912

Direcció de correo del autor: maria.bras@urv.cat

Identificador del autor: 0000-0002-3481-004X

Fecha de alta del registro: 2023-02-18

Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion

Enlace a la fuente original: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00233-019-10059-4

URL Documento de licencia: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Semigroup Forum. 99 (2): 496-516

Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Bras-Amoros, Maria; (2019). Tempered monoids of real numbers, the golden fractal monoid, and the well-tempered harmonic semigroup. Semigroup Forum, 99(2), 496-516. DOI: 10.1007/s00233-019-10059-4

DOI del artículo: 10.1007/s00233-019-10059-4

Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Año de publicación de la revista: 2019

Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications