Bi-skew braces and Hopf Galois structures
Abstract
We define a bi-skew brace to be a set with two group operations and so that is a skew brace with additive group and also with additive group . If is a skew brace, then corresponds to a Hopf Galois structure of type on any Galois extension of fields with Galois group isomorphic to . If is a bi-skew brace, then also corresponds to a Hopf Galois structure of type on a Galois extension of fields with Galois group isomorphic to . Many non-trivial examples exist. One source is radical rings with , where one of the groups is abelian and the other need not be. The left braces of degree classified by Bachiller are bi-skew braces if and only they are radical rings. A different source of bi-skew braces is semidirect products of arbitrary finite groups, which yield many examples where both groups are non-abelian, and a skew brace proof of a result of Crespo, Rio and Vela that if is a semidirect product of finite groups, then a Galois extension of fields with Galois group has a Hopf Galois structure of type .
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1904.08814,
title = {Bi-skew braces and Hopf Galois structures},
author = {Lindsay N. Childs},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.08814},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
17 pages, submitted to New York Journal of Mathematics