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VI.—Endomorphisms of Abstract Algebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2012

Trevor Evans
Trevor Evans
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.
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Synopsis

A study is made of the generalization of the entropic law (xy)(zw)—(xz)(yw) to an identity connecting two operations. It is shown that such an identity is equivalent “in the large” to the condition that the set of endomorphisms with respect to one operation is closed with respect to the other. Furthermore, for such entropic operations, each may be regarded as a generalized endomorphism of the other and various generalizations of elementary properties of endomorphisms are obtained. Examples of entropic pairs of operations are quite common in mathematics and a number of these are discussed. An important aspect of the paper is the matrix notationintroduced to facilitate what would otherwise be extremely cumbersome computations with entropic operations.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 66 , Issue 1 , 1962 , pp. 53 - 64
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1962

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