Inducing braces and Hopf Galois structures

Abstract

Let $p$ be a prime number and let $n$ be an integer not divisible by $p$ and such that every group of order $np$ has a normal subgroup of order $p$. (This holds in particular for $p>n$.) We prove that left braces of size $np$ may be obtained as a semidirect product of the unique left brace of size $p$ and a left brace of size $n$. We give a method to determine all braces of size $np$ from the braces of size $n$ and certain classes of morphisms from the multiplicative group of these braces of size $n$ to $\mathrm{Z}_p^*$. From it we derive a formula giving the number of Hopf Galois structures of abelian type $\mathrm{Z}_p \times E$ on a Galois extension of degree $np$ in terms of the number of Hopf Galois structures of abelian type $E$ on a Galois extension of degree $n$. For a prime number $p\geq 7$, we apply the obtained results to describe all left braces of size $12p$ and determine the number of Hopf Galois structures of abelian type on a Galois extension of degree $12p$.