Brace blocks from bilinear maps and liftings of endomorphisms (Q2675090)

The reviewed paper deals with the brace blocks from bilinear maps and liftings of endomorphisms. In fact, the authors extended two constructions of the well-established mathematician Alan Koch by exhibiting methods to construct brace blocks, that is, families of group operations on a set \(G\) such that any two of them induce a skew brace structure on \(G\). The authors also constructed these operations by using bilinear maps and liftings of endomorphisms of quotient groups with respect to a central subgroup. They provided several examples of the construction by showing that there are brace blocks which consist of distinct operations of any given cardinality. One of the examples they had given yields an answer to an important question of Cornelius Greither. This example exhibits a sequence of distinct operations on the \(p\)-adic Heisenberg group \((G, \cdot)\) such that any two operations give a skew brace structure on \(G\). Specifically, Example 5.10 shows that it can be obtained brace blocks of any given cardinality consisting of distinct operations, and answers a question posed to the authors by Cornelius Greither. Namely, they exhibited a sequence of distinct (topological) group operations on the \(p\)-adic Heisenberg group \((G, \cdot)\) such that \(G\) is a skew brace with respect to any two of them, and the sequence converges to the original operation ``\(\cdot\)''. The interplay between set-theoretic solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation of Mathematical Physics, (skew) braces, regular subgroups of the holomorph, and Hopf-Galois structures has spawned a considerable body of literature in recent years. Thus, the author discussed some preliminaries about skew braces in Section 2. In Section 3, they described their own construction, which can then be applied in Section 4 to the extension of Koch's iterative approach mentioned above. Furthermore, Section 5 contains a few more examples. Moreover, the authors discussed set-theoretic solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation in Section 6. In Section 7, they rephrased brace blocks in terms of the \textit{normalising graph} by exploiting the connections between regular subgroups and skew braces. The paper is very-well written and organized and definitely will be of interest to a large number of mathematical community.