On semi-endomorphisms of groups

DOI10.1080/00927879908826558MaRDI QIDQ4241651zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors K. I. Beidar, Y. Fong, Wen-Fong Ke, Wan-Rong Wu

Publication date 17 November 1999

Published in Communications in Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00927879908826558

anti-automorphisms endomorphism near-rings finite simple groups finite symmetric groups semi-endomorphisms of groups semi-homomorphisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Near-rings (16Y30) Symmetric groups (20B30) Automorphisms of abstract finite groups (20D45)

Review text

A semi-endomorphism of a group \((G,+)\), written additively, is a mapping \(\alpha\) such that \(\alpha(x+y+x)=\alpha(x)+\alpha(y)+\alpha(x)\). The concept for groups dates back to \textit{I. N. Herstein} [Can. J. Math. 20, 384-388 (1968; Zbl 0167.28801)] but the idea was around in 1947 as seen in \textit{G. Ancochea} [Ann. Math., II. Ser. 48, 147-153 (1947; Zbl 0029.10703)] and \textit{I. Kaplansky} [Duke Math. J. 14, 521-525 (1947; Zbl 0029.24801)], and has been used in several situations. The authors study semi-endomorphisms of groups and use them to show that if \(G\) is a finite simple group of order greater than two, then any non-zero zero-preserving semi-endomorphism of \(G\) is either an automorphism or an anti-automorphism of \(G\). This result is not valid for infinite simple groups. Further study of semi-homomorphisms leads to a characterization of the semi-endomorphisms of \(S_4\), the symmetric group on 4 symbols, and a family of groups which includes all the finite symmetric groups of higher order. This is used to show that the near-ring generated by the semi-endomorphisms of \(S_n\) is the endomorphism near-ring of \(S_n\) plus the constant maps.

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