On commutation semigroups of dihedral groups.

DOI10.1007/S00233-013-9483-XMaRDI QIDQ382941zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Darien DeWolf, Christopher Levy, Charles C. Edmunds

Publication date 22 November 2013

Published in Semigroup Forum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.2568

commutation semigroups finite dihedral groups transformation semigroups

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Commutator calculus (20F12) Semigroups of transformations, relations, partitions, etc. (20M20)

Abstract: For G a group and g in G, we define mappings pg(G) and lg(G) from G into G by pg(x)=[x,g] and lg(x)=[g,x]. We let P(G) and L(G) denote the subsemigroups of the set of all mappings from G to G generated by {pg: g in G} and {lg: g in G}, respectively. P(G) and L(G) are called the right and left commutation semigroup of G, respectively. In this paper we will give explicit formulas for the orders of both P(G) and L(G) where G is a dihedral group.

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Let \(G\) be a group. For every \(g\in G\) two kinds of transformations of \(G\) are considered: \(\rho_g(x)=[x,g]\), \(\lambda_g(x)=[g,x]\). Let \(\mathbf P(G)\) and \(\Lambda(G)\) be the semigroups of transformations generated by the sets \(\{\rho_g:g\in G\}\) and \(\{\lambda_g:g\in G\}\), respectively. Explicit formulas for the orders of \(\mathbf P(G)\) and \(\Lambda(G)\) are developed when \(G=D_m\), the dihedral group of order \(2m\). These formulas are applied to determining when the orders of \(\mathbf P(G)\) and \(\Lambda(G)\) coincide or these semigroups are isomorphic.

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