Twisted products of monoids

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Hauptverfasser: East, James, Gray, Robert D., Muhammed, P. A. Azeef, Ruškuc, Nik
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author East, James
Gray, Robert D.
Muhammed, P. A. Azeef
Ruškuc, Nik
author_facet East, James
Gray, Robert D.
Muhammed, P. A. Azeef
Ruškuc, Nik
contents A twisting of a monoid $S$ is a map $Φ:S\times S\to\mathbb{N}$ satisfying the identity $Φ(a,b) + Φ(ab,c) = Φ(a,bc) + Φ(b,c)$. Together with an additive commutative monoid $M$, and a fixed $q\in M$, this gives rise a so-called twisted product $M\times_Φ^qS$, which has underlying set $M\times S$ and multiplication $(i,a)(j,b) = (i+j+Φ(a,b)q,ab)$. This construction has appeared in the special cases where $M$ is $\mathbb{N}$ or $\mathbb{Z}$ under addition, $S$ is a diagram monoid (e.g.~partition, Brauer or Temperley-Lieb), and $Φ$ counts floating components in concatenated diagrams. In this paper we identify a special kind of `tight' twisting, and give a thorough structural description of the resulting twisted products. This involves characterising Green's relations, (von Neumann) regular elements, idempotents, biordered sets, maximal subgroups, Schützenberger groups, and more. We also consider a number of examples, including several apparently new ones, which take as their starting point certain generalisations of Sylvester's rank inequality from linear algebra.
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spellingShingle Twisted products of monoids
East, James
Gray, Robert D.
Muhammed, P. A. Azeef
Ruškuc, Nik
Group Theory
Rings and Algebras
20M10, 20M20
A twisting of a monoid $S$ is a map $Φ:S\times S\to\mathbb{N}$ satisfying the identity $Φ(a,b) + Φ(ab,c) = Φ(a,bc) + Φ(b,c)$. Together with an additive commutative monoid $M$, and a fixed $q\in M$, this gives rise a so-called twisted product $M\times_Φ^qS$, which has underlying set $M\times S$ and multiplication $(i,a)(j,b) = (i+j+Φ(a,b)q,ab)$. This construction has appeared in the special cases where $M$ is $\mathbb{N}$ or $\mathbb{Z}$ under addition, $S$ is a diagram monoid (e.g.~partition, Brauer or Temperley-Lieb), and $Φ$ counts floating components in concatenated diagrams. In this paper we identify a special kind of `tight' twisting, and give a thorough structural description of the resulting twisted products. This involves characterising Green's relations, (von Neumann) regular elements, idempotents, biordered sets, maximal subgroups, Schützenberger groups, and more. We also consider a number of examples, including several apparently new ones, which take as their starting point certain generalisations of Sylvester's rank inequality from linear algebra.
title Twisted products of monoids
topic Group Theory
Rings and Algebras
20M10, 20M20
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04486