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Commuting probability of skew left braces

Group Theory 2026-03-18 v1 Rings and Algebras

Abstract

We introduce a concept of the commuting probability of a skew left brace analogous to group theory. We establish upper and lower bounds for the commuting probability and prove that, for finite non-trivial skew left braces, it is always at most 34\frac{3}{4}. Interestingly, there is no skew left brace with commuting probability in the open interval (5/8,1)(5/8, 1), except 34\frac{3}{4}, for which we construct an explicit example. A characterization of skew left braces having commuting probability 34\frac{3}{4} or 58\frac{5}{8} is presented. We further show that the finite skew left braces with commuting probability larger than 65128\frac{65}{128} are necessarily nilpotent. We prove that the commuting probability remains invariant under isoclinism of skew braces. We introduce a concept of a compact Hausdorff topological skew left brace BB, where we prove that the set of all elements of BB having finite centraliser index in BB is a Borel subgroup. For such infinite non-trivial skew left braces too 34\frac{3}{4} is the upper bound for the commuting probability, and 34\frac{3}{4} is the only rational number which occurs as commuting probability in the open interval (5/8,1)(5/8, 1).

Cite

@article{arxiv.2603.16771,
  title  = {Commuting probability of skew left braces},
  author = {Susanta Mondal and Manoj K. Yadav},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.16771},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

19 pages, comments highly welcome

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