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Semi-Homomorphisms of Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

I. N. Herstein
I. N. Herstein*
Affiliation:
University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
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A mapping ϕ from one group, G, into another, H, is said to be a semi-homomorphism of G if ϕ(aba) = ϕ(a) ϕ(b) ϕa) for all a, b ∊G. Clearly any homomorphism or anti-homomorphism is a semi-homomorphism; the converse, however, need not be true in general. It is perfectly clear what one intends by a semi-isomorphism or semi-automorphism.

Our purpose here is to show that for a rather general situation a semi-homomorphism turns out to be a homomorphism or an anti-homomorphism. In (2) we proved that any semi-automorphism of a simple group which contains an element of order 4 must automatically be either an automorphism or an anti-automorphism.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 20 , 1968 , pp. 384 - 388
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1968

Footnotes

In the first version of this paper the results were proved for the case of semi-automorphisms of simple groups. The results were generalized to the present situation while the author was a guest at the Mathematics Research Institute of the E.T.H. in Zürich.

This work was supported by a grant from the Army Research Office, ARO(D), at the University of Chicago.

References

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2. Herstein, I. N. and Ruchte, M. F., Semi-automorphisms of groups, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc, 9 (1958), 145–150.Google Scholar