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Main Authors: Damele, Marco, Loi, Andrea
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07609
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author Damele, Marco
Loi, Andrea
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Loi, Andrea
contents We study compact and locally compact topological analogues of the Byott--Vendramin solvability problem for finite skew braces, asking whether solvability of the additive group forces solvability of the multiplicative group. Our main theorem proves an affirmative result in the connected locally compact Hausdorff setting: if \(B=(B,\cdot,\circ)\) is a connected locally compact Hausdorff topological skew brace and the additive group \((B,\cdot)\) is solvable, then the multiplicative group \((B,\circ)\) is solvable. The proof proceeds by reducing the additive group to a solvable Lie quotient and then applying an affine-action theorem: a connected Lie group acting transitively and affinely on a connected solvable Lie group, with solvable stabilizer identity component, is itself solvable. We further show that the Hausdorff, local compactness, and connectedness hypotheses are essential by constructing counterexamples when each is omitted. In the compact connected Hausdorff case with abelian additive group, we obtain a stronger rigidity phenomenon: the two group laws coincide.
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spellingShingle Solvability and Rigidity for Topological Skew Braces
Damele, Marco
Loi, Andrea
Group Theory
General Topology
We study compact and locally compact topological analogues of the Byott--Vendramin solvability problem for finite skew braces, asking whether solvability of the additive group forces solvability of the multiplicative group. Our main theorem proves an affirmative result in the connected locally compact Hausdorff setting: if \(B=(B,\cdot,\circ)\) is a connected locally compact Hausdorff topological skew brace and the additive group \((B,\cdot)\) is solvable, then the multiplicative group \((B,\circ)\) is solvable. The proof proceeds by reducing the additive group to a solvable Lie quotient and then applying an affine-action theorem: a connected Lie group acting transitively and affinely on a connected solvable Lie group, with solvable stabilizer identity component, is itself solvable. We further show that the Hausdorff, local compactness, and connectedness hypotheses are essential by constructing counterexamples when each is omitted. In the compact connected Hausdorff case with abelian additive group, we obtain a stronger rigidity phenomenon: the two group laws coincide.
title Solvability and Rigidity for Topological Skew Braces
topic Group Theory
General Topology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07609