Geometry of Translations on a Boolean Cube

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The operation of Minkowski addition of geometric figures has a discrete analog, addition of subsets of a Boolean cube viewed as a vector space over the two-element field. Subsets of the Boolean cube (or multivariable Boolean functions) form a monoid with respect to this operation. This monoid is of interest in classical discrete analysis as well as in a number of problems related to information theory. We consider several complexity aspects of this monoid, namely structural, algorithmic, and algebraic.