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Bi-gyrogroup: The group-like structure induced by bi-decomposition of groups

Group Theory 2016-03-24 v2

Abstract

The decomposition Γ=BH\Gamma=BH of a group Γ\Gamma into a subset BB and a subgroup HH of Γ\Gamma induces, under general conditions, a group-like structure for BB, known as a gyrogroup. The famous concrete realization of a gyrogroup, which motivated the emergence of gyrogroups into the mainstream, is the space of all relativistically admissible velocities along with a binary operation given by the Einstein velocity addition law of special relativity theory. The latter leads to the Lorentz transformation group SO(1,n)\mathrm{SO}(1,n), nNn\in\mathbb{N}, in pseudo-Euclidean spaces of signature (1,n)(1, n). The study in this article is motivated by generalized Lorentz groups SO(m,n)\mathrm{SO}(m, n), m,nNm, n\in\mathbb{N}, in pseudo-Euclidean spaces of signature (m,n)(m, n). Accordingly, this article explores the bi-decomposition Γ=HLBHR\Gamma = H_LBH_R of a group Γ\Gamma into a subset BB and subgroups HLH_L and HRH_R of Γ\Gamma, along with the novel bi-gyrogroup structure of BB induced by the bi-decomposition of Γ\Gamma. As an example, we show by methods of Clifford algebras that the quotient group of the spin group spin(m,n)\mathrm{spin}(m, n) possesses the bi-decomposition structure.

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@article{arxiv.1601.05159,
  title  = {Bi-gyrogroup: The group-like structure induced by bi-decomposition of groups},
  author = {Teerapong Suksumran and Abraham A. Ungar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.05159},
  year   = {2016}
}

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