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
is a set
D equipped with two binary associative operations ⊢ and ⊣ respectively called left and right, and satisfying the following conditions:
for all
and there exists an element
satisfying
and for all
there exists
(called inverse of
x) such that
A subset
S of a digroup
D is said to be a subdigroup of
D if
is a digroup with distinguish bar-unit 1.
Note that the set of bar-units of D is a subdigroup of
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.
-
(a)
The set is a group in which
-
(b)
The mapping defined by is an epimorphism of digroups that fixes , and
-
(c)
for all
-
(d)
for all Consequently,
-
(e)
for all
-
(f)
for all
-
(g)
for all
Remark 2.
Let be a digroup. Then
for all
Proof. This is a consequence of Remark 1(d) and Remark 1(g). □
Definition 1. [9, Definition 4]. A subdigroup S of a digroup is said to be normal if for all
Remark 3. By the assertions f) and g) of Remark 1, it follows that if S is normal in D then for all
The following Lemma is the modular property for groups.
Lemma 1.
Let be a digroup, S and two subdigroups of D and R a subdigroup of Consider the set Then
Proof. Let and Clearly, and since and So, For the other inclusion, let It is enough to show that i.e. Indeed, since and and thus thanks to Remark 1(d). This proves the first identity. The proof of the second identity is similar. □
Lemma 2. Let be a digroup. If S and R are two normal subdigroups of then is also a normal subdigroup of
Proof. First we show that
is closed under the digroup operations ⊢ and
Indeed, for all
and
we have as
R is normal in
D and by Remark 3,
Similarly,
So,
and,
So
Now for
and
Since
we conclude that
is a subdigroup of
To show that
is normal, let
and
Then
It follows that:
□
Lemma 3. Let D be a digroup, and J three subdigroups of D such that and are normal subdigroups of Then is a normal subdigroup of
Proof. Let and We need to show that
Set and
Clearly
and
by the normality of
and
in
J since
So
and
for the same reason. We claim that:
Indeed,
□
Lemma 4. Let be a digroup. If , R and are subdigroups of D such that R a normal subdigroup of S and a normal subdigroup of then
-
(a)
is a normal subdigroup of
-
(b)
is a normal subdigroup of
Proof. Since R and are respectively normal subdigroups of S and one easily verify that they are, along with and normal subgroups of 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 be a digroup, and S a subdigroup of Then the following assertions are true:
-
(a)
for all
-
(b)
-
(c)
Proposition 1.
[2, Proposition4.2] Let be a digroup and S a subdigroup of Define the relation: For
Then ∼ is an equivalence relation and the equivalence classes are the left cosets (orbits of the action of S on D).
By the fundamental theorem of equivalence relations, the relation ∼ partitions
D into the left cosets
. Let
be the set of left cosets. Define the following binary operations
by:
The following Proposition provides a functor from the category of digroups to the category of groups.
Proposition 2. [2, Proposition 4.4] Let be a digroup and S a normal subdigroup of D. Then the binary operations are well-defined and equip with a structure of a group with identity and the inverse of the class is the class
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 be two digroups and S a normal subdigroup of Let be a morphism of digroups such that Then there is an isomorphism of groups In particular, if then this isomorphism becomes
Proposition 4.
[2, Corollary 4.3] Let D be a digroup, and S and R two subdigroups of D such that for all Then there is a group isomorphism
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 Then there is a group isomorphism
3. The Zassenhaus Lemma for Digroups
In this section, we prove the Zassenhaus Lemma for digroups. We use the following Lemmas.
Lemma 6.
Let be a digroup. If are normal subdigroups of then there is a group isomorphism
Proof. Consider the map
Notice that for all
we have by Remark 2,
which implies
and thus
hence
So
is well-defined.
is clearly a digroup homomorphism by definition of the operations
on left cosets. By interchanging the positions of
and
in the proof of the well-definition of
one proves injection. That
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 be a digroup. If , R and are subdigroups of D such that R is a normal subdigroup of S and is a normal subdigroup of then
Proof. By the modular property of digroups (Lemma 1), it suffices to show that
Set
Clearly,
and
are normal subdigroup of
It follows by Lemma 2 that
is a normal subdigroup of
Now consider the map
is well-defined since for all
and
such that
we have as
and
So
i.e.
To show that
is a digroup homomorphism, notice that as
R is normal in
for all
and
we have
and
thanks to Remark 3. So we have from the proof of Lemma 2
and
Therefore,
and
is surjective since if
then
and we have by Remark 1(f) that
It remains to show that
is injective. Indeed,
⇔
⇔
⇔
thanks to Lemma 5(a). So
for some
and
It follows that
So
But
since for all
and
implying that
Hence
Therefore we have by Proposition 3 that
The last isomorphism holds since
is the identity element in the group
Similarly, setting
and considering the map
we show by that
Since by Lemma 6,
It follows that
This completes the proof. □
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