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Hom-unitality and hom-associative structures

Germán García Butenegro·Abdennour Kitouni·Sergei Silvestrov
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We study hom-associative structures on general possibly non-associative algebras focusing on one-sided and two-sided unital algebras. New characterizations and aspects of these structures, along with some important subclasses, are explored for nonassociative algebras. By exploiting the observation that the twisting linear map in the hom-associativity axiom of one-sided unital hom-associative algebras is a left or right multiplication operator by an element of the algebra (obtained by the action of the twisting map on a corresponding one-sided unity), a new characterization of the multiplicative twisting operators (or, in other words, the multiplicative hom-associative algebras) is established for one-sided unital algebras. This demonstrates a strong connection between multiplicativity in hom-associative structures and the idempotents of the algebra, thereby further enhancing our understanding of the structure and special nature of multiplicative hom-associative algebra structures as a special subclass of arbitrary hom-associative structures with arbitrary linear twisting maps. Furthermore, new insights into subspaces and a subalgebra of hom-unities, that is, elements that induce hom-associativity by multiplication, are obtained. Moreover, because non-unital hom-associative algebras need not be twisted by a multiplication operator, a unitalization process is employed to describe a subalgebra of two-sided hom-unities that induce hom-associative structures on such algebras. This is formulated in terms of the eigenspaces of multiplication operators within the algebra. Additionally, the obtained insights and general results about the structure and characterization of hom-algebra structures are applied to some important known general classes of non-associative algebras, such as commutative, possibly non-associative algebras, Cayley-Dickson algebras, Leibniz algebras, and hom-Leibniz algebras.

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Germán García Butenegro, Abdennour Kitouni, Sergei Silvestrov. 2026-02-07. Hom-unitality and hom-associative structures. https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07314

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