Automorphisms of \(n\)-ary groups (Q2072210)

By the Hosszú-Gluskin theorem every \(n\)-group (\(n > 2\)) \((G,f)\) can be derived from a binary group \((G, \cdot )\), an automorphism \(\varphi \) of \((G, \cdot )\) and an element \(b \in G\) such that \(\varphi (b) = b\), denote \((G,f) = \mathrm{der}_{\varphi ,b}(G, \cdot )\). Here, automorphisms and autotopies of \(n\)-ary groups are studied using this fact. Bijections \({\alpha _1},\dots ,{\alpha _n},\delta \) from an \(n\)-groupoid \((G,f)\) to an \(n\)-groupoid \((H,g)\) are an isotopy between \((G,f)\) and \((H,g)\) iff \(\delta (f({x_1},\dots ,{x_n})) = g({\alpha _1}{x_1},\dots ,{\alpha _n}{x_n})\). For instance, it is shown that groups of autotopies of isotopic \(n\) -groups are isomorphic, number of autotopies of \(n\)-group \((G,f)\) is \(|G{|^n} \cdot |\Aut(G, \cdot )|\) and the number of automorphisms of a derived \(n\)-group \(\mathrm{der}_{\varphi ,b}(G, \cdot )\) is expressed using properties of the binary group \((G, \cdot )\).