2.1. Normal Subdigroups
In this section, we provide a few results on normal subdigroups. Recall from [
5] (Definition 4.1) that a digroup
is a set
D equipped with two binary associative operations ⊢ and ⊣, respectively, called left and right, 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 a distinguished bar unit 1.
Note that the set of the bar units of D is a subdigroup of
Also, recall that a morphism between two digroups is a map that preserves the two binary operations and is compatible with bar units and inverses.
Remark 1. Let be a digroup. Thus,
- (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
Proof. The proofs of items (a), (b), (d) and (e) are given in [
5] (Lemma 4.5), and item (c) in [
5] (Lemma 4.3). Items (f) and (g) follow from (c) and (1). □
Remark 2. Let be a digroup. Then,for all Proof. This is a consequence of Remark 1(d) and Remark 1(g). □
Definition 3. Let S be a subdigroup of a digroup We say that S is closed under conjugation by if
Definition 4 ([
8] (Definition 4))
. A subdigroup S of a digroup is said to be normal if S is closed under a conjugation by all elements in Remark 5. By Assertions (f) and (g) of Remark 1, it follows that if S is normal in D then for all
For any subdigroup
S of a digroup
we denote
The following lemma is the modular property for groups.
Lemma 6. Let be a digroup, let S and be two subdigroups of D and let R be a subdigroup of 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 7. 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
R is normal in
D and by Remark 5,
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 8. Let D be a digroup, let and J be three subdigroups of D such that is a normal subdigroup of J and let be closed under a conjugation by all elements in Then, is a normal subdigroup of
Proof. Note that with the given hypotheses, it follows from the first part of the proof of Lemma 7 that
is a subdigroup of
We still need to show that
is normal in
Indeed, let
and
We need to show that
Set
and
Clearly
by the normality of
in
J and
via closure under a conjugation by all elements in
So,
and
for the same reason. We claim that
Indeed,
□
Lemma 9. 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
- (a)
is a normal subdigroup of
- (b)
is a normal subdigroup of
Proof. Since R and are, respectively, normal subdigroups of S and one can easily verify that they are, along with and normal subgroups of The results of (a) and (b) now follow from Lemma 8 since R and are closed under a conjugation by elements in . □
2.2. Quotient Digroups
This section proposes a new notion of a quotient of a given digroup by a normal subdigroup. We construct an equivalence relation for which the equivalence classes are the co-sets 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 [
9] on trigroups by considering their underlying digroup structure. Consequently, the proofs of all results in this section follow their corresponding results in [
9].
Lemma 10 ([
9] (Lemma 4.1))
. Let be a digroup, and let S be a subdigroup of Then, the following assertions are true:- (a)
for all
- (b)
- (c)
Proposition 11 ([
9] (Proposition 4.2))
. Let be a digroup and let S be a subdigroup of Define the following relation: For Then, ∼ is an equivalence relation, and the equivalence classes are the left co-sets (orbits of the action of S on D). By the fundamental theorem of equivalence relations, the relation ∼ partitions
D into the left co-sets
. Let
be the set of left co-sets. Define the following binary operations
by
The following proposition provides a functor from the category of digroups to the category of groups.
Proposition 12 ([
9] (Proposition 4.4))
. Let be a digroup and let S be 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 Example 13. Let be the center of the general linear group of degree n with coefficients in Define the following binary operations on :
- (i)
- (ii)
For all and Thus, is a digroup with a distinguished bar unit in which is the inverse of where is the identity matrix. It is easy to verify on thatSo, the operations ⊩
and ⫣
are equal, and thus the quotient is a group. The following results are obtained from the theorems proven in [
9] on trigroups by using the trivial trigroup structure of digroups.
Proposition 14 ([
9] (Proposition 4.8))
. Let D and be two digroups and let S be 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 15 ([
9] (Corollary 4.3))
. Let D be a digroup, and let S and R be two subdigroups of D such that for all Then, there is a group isomorphism Proposition 16 ([
9] (Proposition 4.17))
. Let D be a digroup, and let S and R be two normal subdigroups of D such that S is a normal subgroup of Then, there is a group isomorphism