Determining skew left braces of size np
Abstract
We define the twofold semidirect product of two skew left braces, in which both the additive and multiplicative groups are semidirect products of the corresponding groups of the given skew left braces. We consider an odd prime and an integer satisfying , for every group of order and such that each group of order has a unique -Sylow subgroup. Under these conditions, we prove that any skew left brace of size is either a twofold semidirect product of the trivial brace of size and a skew left brace of size or a companion skew left brace of that one. We develop an algorithm to obtain all skew left braces of size from the skew left braces of size and provide a formula to count them. We use this result to describe all skew left braces of size for , which proves a conjecture of V.G. Bardakov, M.V. Neshchadim and M.K. Yadav.
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@article{arxiv.2302.13098,
title = {Determining skew left braces of size np},
author = {Teresa Crespo and Daniel Gil-Muñoz and Anna Rio and Montserrat Vela},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.13098},
year = {2025}
}