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A Zassenhaus Lemma for Digroups

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Abstract
In this paper, we construct a quotient structure on digroups. This construction yields a new functor from the category of digroups to the category of groups. We obtain a modular property for digroups, and use it to prove an analogue of the Zassenhaus Lemma in this framework.
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1. Introduction

Digroups are a generalization of groups which were independently introduced by J. L. Loday in his study of dialgebras [7], by K. Liu [5] and R. Felipe [3], and were further studied in [8]. A formal axiomatic definition was provided by M. Kinyon in [4], in which Kinyon used digroups to construct Lie racks in his attempt to solve the coquecigrue problem, which consists of finding an appropriate generalization of Lie’s third theorem in the category of Leibniz algebras [6].
The notion of normal subgroups plays a fundamental role in defining quotient groups and obtaining the classical isomorphism theorems which are fundamental tools in the development of Group Theory (see [10]). Recently, Ongay, Velasquez and Wills-Toro defined normal subdigroups [9] and studied a construction of quotient digroups and the corresponding classical Isomorphism Theorems. In [2], It is defined the concept of trigroups as a generalization of digroups, following essentially Loday’s axiomatic definition of associative trioids [7]. The authors in [2] also constructed quotient trigroups and proved classical isomorphism theorems in the category of trigroups [1]. In this paper we obtain the same results on digroups by considering that digroups have a trivial trigroup structure. This study produces a new functor from the category of digroups to the category of groups. More precisely, we use the notion of conjugation of digoups provided in [4] to define a congruence for which the quotient set has a group structure, i.e. a trivial digroup structure. In Section 2, we study the concept quotient digroups and state classical isomorphism theorems yielding from this concept. These theorems are independent of the theorems obtained in [9]. In Section 3, we establish an analogue of the Zassenhaus Lemma in the category of digroups.

2. Preliminaries

2.1. Normal Subdigroups

In this section, we provide a few results on normal subdigroups. Recall from [4, Definition 4.1] that a digroup ( D , , ) is a set D equipped with two binary associative operations ⊢ and ⊣ respectively called left and right, and satisfying the following conditions:
x ( y z ) = ( x y ) z ( p 1 ) x ( y z ) = ( x y ) z ( p 2 ) x ( y z ) = x ( y z ) ( p 3 )
for all x , y , z D , and there exists an element 1 A satisfying
1 x = x = x 1 for all x D ( I )
and for all x D , there exists x 1 D (called inverse of x) such that
x x 1 = 1 = x 1 x .
A subset S of a digroup D is said to be a subdigroup of D if ( S , , ) is a digroup with distinguish bar-unit 1.
Note that the set U D : = { e D : e x = x = x e f o r a l l x , y D } of bar-units of D is a subdigroup of D .
Recall also that a morphism between two digroups is a map that preserves the three binary operations and is compatible with bar-units and inverses.
Remark 1.
[4, Lemma 4.5].
(a) 
The set J D = { x 1 : x D } is a group in which = .
(b) 
The mapping ϕ : D J D defined by x ( x 1 ) 1 is an epimorphism of digroups that fixes J D , and Ker ϕ = U D .
(c) 
( x 1 ) 1 = x 1 = 1 x for all x D .
(d) 
( x y ) 1 = y 1 x 1 = y 1 x 1 = ( x y ) 1 for all x , y D . Consequently, ( ( x 1 ) 1 ) 1 = x 1 .
(e) 
x 1 1 = x 1 = 1 x 1 for all x D .
(f) 
x y = ( x 1 ) 1 y for all x , y D .
(g) 
x y = x ( y 1 ) 1 for all x , y D .
Remark 2.
Let ( D , , ) be a digroup. Then
a 1 b = a 1 ( b 1 ) 1 = a 1 ( b 1 ) 1
for all a , b S .
Proof. 
This is a consequence of Remark 1(d) and Remark 1(g). □
Definition 1.
[9, Definition 4]. A subdigroup S of a digroup ( D , , ) is said to be normal if x S x 1 S for all x D .
Remark 3.
By the assertions f) and g) of Remark 1, it follows that if S is normal in D then x 1 S x S for all x D .
The following Lemma is the modular property for groups.
Lemma 1.
Let ( D , , ) be a digroup, S and S two subdigroups of D and R a subdigroup of S . Consider the set S ^ = { x D | x 1 S } . Then
S ^ S R = S ( S R ) a n d R S ^ S = S ( R S ) .
Proof. 
Let x S ^ S and r R . Clearly, x r S R and x r = ( x 1 ) 1 r S since x 1 S and R S . So, S ^ S R S ( S R ) . For the other inclusion, let x r S ( S R ) . It is enough to show that x S ^ i.e. x 1 S . Indeed, ( x 1 ) 1 = x 1 = x ( r r 1 ) = ( x r ) r 1 S since x r S and r 1 R S , and thus x 1 = ( ( x 1 ) 1 ) 1 S , thanks to Remark 1(d). This proves the first identity. The proof of the second identity is similar. □
Lemma 2.
Let ( D , , ) be a digroup. If S and R are two normal subdigroups of D , then S R is also a normal subdigroup of D .
Proof. 
First we show that S R is closed under the digroup operations ⊢ and . Indeed, for all x , y S and r 1 , r 2 R , we have as R is normal in D and by Remark 3, y 1 r 1 y R . Similarly, ( y 1 r 2 1 ) ( r 2 r 1 ) ( y r 2 ) R . So,
( x r 1 ) ( y r 2 ) = ( x ( ( y y 1 ) r 1 ) ) ( y r 2 ) = ( ( x y ) y 1 ) r 1 ( y r 2 ) = ( x y ) ( y 1 r 1 ) ( y r 2 ) = p 1 ( x y ) ( ( y 1 r 1 ) y ) r 2 ) = ( x y ) ( ( y 1 r 1 y ) r 2 )
and,
( x r 1 ) ( y r 2 ) = ( x ( ( y y 1 ) ( r 2 1 r 2 ) r 1 ) ) ( y r 2 ) = P 3 ( ( x y ) y 1 ) ( r 2 1 ( r 2 r 1 ) ( y r 2 ) ) = P 1 ( ( x y ) ( y 1 r 2 1 ) ( r 2 r 1 ) ( y r 2 ) ) ( e q . 2 )
So ( x r 1 ) ( y r 2 ) , ( x r 1 ) ( y r 2 ) S R .
Now for x S and r R ,
( x r ) 1 = r 1 x 1 = ( r 1 x 1 ) ( r r 1 ) = p 3 ( r 1 x 1 r ) r 1 = ( r 1 x 1 ( r 1 ) 1 ) r 1 = ( r 1 x r ) 1 r 1 = ( r 1 x r ) 1 r 1 S R .
Since 1 = 1 1 , we conclude that S R is a subdigroup of D . To show that S R is normal, let s S , r R and x D . Then
s r = ( s 1 ) r = ( s ( x 1 x ) ) r = ( ( s x 1 ) x ) r = p 1 ( s x 1 ) ( x r ) .
It follows that:
x ( s r ) x 1 = x ( ( s x 1 ) ( x r ) ) x 1 = ( x s x 1 ) ( x r x 1 ) S R .
Lemma 3.
Let D be a digroup, I 1 , I 2 and J three subdigroups of D such that I 1 and I 2 are normal subdigroups of J . Then I 1 I 2 is a normal subdigroup of J I 2 .
Proof. 
Let r 1 I 1 , s , r 2 I 2 and r J . We need to show that
( r s ) ( r 1 r 2 ) ( r s ) 1 I 1 I 2 . Set c 1 : = s r 1 s 1 and
c 2 : = s r 2 s 1 . Clearly c 1 I 1 and c 2 I 2 by the normality of I 1 and I 2 in J since I 2 J . So b 1 : = r c 1 r 1 I 1 and b 2 : = r c 2 r 1 I 2 for the same reason. We claim that: ( r s ) ( r 1 r 2 ) ( r s ) 1 = b 1 b 2 . Indeed,
b 1 b 2 = ( r c 1 r 1 ) ( r c 2 r 1 ) = p 1 ( r c 1 ( r 1 r ) ) ( c 2 r 1 ) = ( r c 1 1 ) ( c 2 r 1 ) = r c 1 c 2 r 1 = r ( s r 1 s 1 ) ( s r 2 s 1 ) r 1 = p 1 r ( s r 1 ( s 1 s ) ) r 2 s 1 r 1 = r ( s r 1 1 ) r 2 s 1 r 1 = r ( s r 1 ) r 2 s 1 r 1 = r s ( r 1 r 2 ) s 1 r 1 = ( r s ) ( r 1 r 2 ) ( r s ) 1 .
Lemma 4.
Let ( D , , ) be a digroup. If S , S , R and R are subdigroups of D such that R a normal subdigroup of S and R a normal subdigroup of S , then
(a) 
( S R ) R is a normal subdigroup of ( S S ) R
(b) 
( S R ) R is a normal subdigroup of ( S S ) R .
Proof. 
Since R and R are respectively normal subdigroups of S and S , one easily verify that they are, along with S R and S R , normal subgroups of S S . The results a) and b) now follow from Lemma 3 □

2.2. Quotient Digroups

This section proposes a new notion of quotient of a given digroup by a normal subdigroup. We construct an equivalence relation for which the equivalence classes are the cosets of the normal subdigroup, and the equivalence class of the identity element is the normal subdigroup. This construction is identical to the work presented in [2] on trigroups by considering their underlying digroup structure. Consequently, the proofs of all results in this section follow by their corresponding results in [2].
Lemma 5.
[2, Lemma 4.1] Let ( D , , ) be a digroup, and S a subdigroup of D . Then the following assertions are true:
(a) 
g S = S g 1 S S g = S for all g D .
(b) 
g S = h S g 1 h S .
(c) 
S g = S h , g h 1 S
Proposition 1.
[2, Proposition4.2] Let ( D , , ) be a digroup and S a subdigroup of D . Define the relation: For x , y D ,
x y x 1 y S .
Then ∼ is an equivalence relation and the equivalence classes are the left cosets x S , x D (orbits of the action of S on D).
By the fundamental theorem of equivalence relations, the relation ∼ partitions D into the left cosets x S , x D . Let D / S be the set of left cosets. Define the following binary operations , : D / S × D / S D / S by:
( g S ) ( h S ) = ( g h ) S
( g S ) ( h S ) = ( g h ) S .
The following Proposition provides a functor from the category of digroups to the category of groups.
Proposition 2.
[2, Proposition 4.4] Let ( D , , ) be a digroup and S a normal subdigroup of D. Then the binary operations , are well-defined and equip D / S with a structure of a group with identity { S } and the inverse of the class g S is the class g 1 S .
The following results are isomorphism theorems on digroups. They are obtained from isomorphism theorems proven in [2] on trigroups by using the trivial trigroup structure of digroups.
Proposition 3.
[2, Proposition 4.8] Let D and D be two digroups and S a normal subdigroup of D . Let ϕ : D D be a morphism of digroups such that Ker ( ϕ ) S . Then there is an isomorphism of groups ϕ ^ : D / S I m ϕ / ϕ ( S ) . In particular, if S = k e r ( ϕ ) then this isomorphism becomes ϕ ^ : D / k e r ( ϕ ) I m ϕ / { 1 } .
Proposition 4.
[2, Corollary 4.3] Let D be a digroup, and S and R two subdigroups of D such that s R = R s for all s S . Then there is a group isomorphism
( S R ) / R S / ( S R ^ ) .
Proposition 5.
[2, Proposition 4.17] Let D be a digroup, and S and R two normal subdigroups of D such that S is a normal subgroup of R . Then there is a group isomorphism
( D / S ) / ( R ^ / S ) D / R .

3. The Zassenhaus Lemma for Digroups

In this section, we prove the Zassenhaus Lemma for digroups. We use the following Lemmas.
Lemma 6.
Let ( D , , ) be a digroup. If S 1 , S 2 are normal subdigroups of D , then there is a group isomorphism
D S 1 S 2 D S 2 S 1 .
Proof. 
Consider the map
Γ : D S 1 S 2 D S 2 S 1 defined by a ( S 1 S 2 ) a ( S 2 S 1 ) .
Notice that for all a , b D , we have by Remark 2,
a ( S 1 S 2 ) = b ( S 1 S 2 ) a 1 ( b 1 ) 1 ( S 1 S 2 )
which implies a 1 ( b 1 ) 1 = s 1 s 2 f o r s o m e s 1 S 1 a n d s 2 S 2 , and thus b 1 ( a 1 ) 1 = s 2 1 s 1 1 S 2 S 1 , hence a ( S 2 S 1 ) = b ( S 2 S 1 ) . So Γ is well-defined. Γ is clearly a digroup homomorphism by definition of the operations , on left cosets. By interchanging the positions of S 1 and S 2 in the proof of the well-definition of Γ , one proves injection. That Γ is surjective is trivial. □
The following is an analogue of the Zassenhaus Lemma (also known as the Butterfly Lemma on groups) [10] for digroups.
Corollary 1.
Let ( D , , ) be a digroup. If S , S , R and R are subdigroups of D such that R is a normal subdigroup of S and R is a normal subdigroup of S , then
S ( S R ) S ( R R ) S ( S R ) S ( R R )
Proof. 
By the modular property of digroups (Lemma 1), it suffices to show that
( S ^ S ) R ( S ^ R ) R ( S ^ S ) R ( S ^ R ) R .
Set N : = ( S ^ R ) ( S ^ R ) . Clearly, S ^ R and S ^ R are normal subdigroup of S ^ S ^ . It follows by Lemma 2 that N is a normal subdigroup of S ^ S ^ . Now consider the map
Φ : ( S ^ S ) R ( S ^ S ^ ) N defined by x r x N .
Φ is well-defined since for all x , y S ^ S and r 1 , r 2 R such that x r 1 = y r 2 , we have as r 1 r 1 1 = 1 and y 1 y U D ,
y 1 x = y 1 ( x 1 ) 1 = y 1 ( x 1 ) 1 = y 1 ( x 1 ) = y 1 ( x ( r 1 r 1 1 ) ) = y 1 ( x r 1 ) r 1 1 = y 1 ( y r 2 ) r 1 1 = ( y 1 y ) ( r 2 r 1 1 ) = r 2 r 1 1 .
y 1 x = r 2 r 1 1 S R = 1 S R 1 S ^ R N . So x y , i.e. x N = y N . To show that Φ is a digroup homomorphism, notice that as R is normal in S , for all x , y S S and r 1 , r 2 R , we have y 1 r 1 y R and ( y 1 r 2 1 ) ( r 2 r 1 ) ( y r 2 ) R , thanks to Remark 3. So we have from the proof of Lemma 2
( x r 1 ) ( y r 2 ) = ( x y ) ( y 1 r 1 y ) r 2 ( S S ) R ,
and
( x r 1 ) ( y r 2 ) = ( x y ) ( y 1 r 2 1 ) ( r 2 r 1 ) ( y r 2 ) ( S S ) R .
Therefore,
Φ ( ( x r 1 ) ( y r 2 ) ) = ( x y ) N = ( x N ) ( y N ) = Φ ( x r 1 ) Φ ( y r 2 )
and
Φ ( ( x r 1 ) ( y r 2 ) ) = ( x y ) N = ( x N ) ( y N ) = Φ ( x r 1 ) Φ ( y r 2 ) .
Φ is surjective since if x S ^ S ^ , then ( x 1 ) 1 S ^ S , and we have by Remark 1(f) that Φ ( ( x 1 ) 1 R ) = ( x 1 ) 1 N = x N . It remains to show that Φ is injective. Indeed, x a Ker ( Φ ) x N = N x 1 N ( x 1 ) 1 N , thanks to Lemma 5(a). So ( x 1 ) 1 = y 1 y 2 for some y 1 S ^ R and y 2 S ^ R . It follows that
x a = ( x 1 ) 1 a = ( y 1 y 2 ) a = y 1 ( y 2 a ) S ^ R R .
So Ker ( Φ ) S ^ R R . But S ^ R R Ker ( Φ ) since for all x S ^ R and a R , ( x 1 ) 1 = x 1 N implying that Φ ( x a ) = Φ ( ( x 1 ) 1 a ) = ( x 1 ) 1 N = N . Hence Ker ( Φ ) = ( S ^ R ) R . Therefore we have by Proposition 3 that
( S ^ S ) R ( S ^ R ) R ( S ^ S ^ ) N / { N } ( S ^ S ^ ) N .
The last isomorphism holds since { N } is the identity element in the group S ^ S ^ N . Similarly, setting N : = ( S ^ R ) ( S ^ R ) and considering the map
Φ : ( S ^ S ) R ( S ^ S ^ ) N d e f i n e d b y x r x N .
we show by that
( S ^ S ) R ( S ^ R ) R ( S ^ S ^ ) N .
Since by Lemma 6, S ^ S ^ N S ^ S ^ N , It follows that
( S ^ S ) R ( S ^ R ) R ( S ^ S ) R ( S ^ R ) R .
This completes the proof. □

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