Near-Rings and Skew Braces

Abstract

This paper adapts Rump's correspondence between radical rings and braces to a more general setting, utilizing a suitable class of near-rings. Given a right near-ring $(R,+,\circ)$ with a multiplicative identity, we define a new operation that yields a monoid. Under natural compatibility conditions expressed via a filtration, this monoid becomes a topological group, yielding a topological right skew brace. This generalization recovers radical-ring braces and successfully applies to near-rings of maps under composition. We provide several explicit applications, demonstrating that the Nottingham group, groups of triangular functions, iterated wreath products of arbitrary groups, and groups of IA-automorphisms of free nilpotent groups naturally arise as multiplicative groups of such topological skew braces.