Representations of skew braces

Abstract

In this paper, we explore linear representations of skew left braces, which are known to provide bijective non-degenerate set-theoretical solutions to the Yang--Baxter equation that are not necessarily involutive. A skew left brace $(A, \cdot, \circ)$ induces an action $\lambda^{\op}: (A, \circ) \to \Aut (A, \cdot)$, which gives rise to the group $\Lambda_{A^{\op}} = (A, \cdot) \rtimes_{\lambda^{\op}} (A, \circ)$. We prove that if $A$ and $B$ are isoclinic skew left braces, then $\Lambda_{A^{\op}}$ and $\Lambda_{B^{\op}}$ are also isoclinic under some mild restrictions on the centers of the respective groups. Our key observation is that there is a one-to-one correspondence between the set of equivalence classes of irreducible representations of $(A, \cdot, \circ)$ and that of the group $\Lambda_{A^{\op}}$. We obtain a decomposition of the induced representation of the additive group $(A, \cdot)$ and of the multiplicative group $(A, \circ)$ corresponding to the regular representation of the group $\Lambda_{A^{\op}}$. As examples, we compute the dimensions of the irreducible representations for several skew left braces with prime power orders.