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2018/92/3-4 (5) — DOI: 10.5486/PMD.2018.7873 — pp. 331-355

Augmented ternary maps, their applications to set-graded arbitrary triple systems, and more applications

Authors: Antonio J. Calderon Martin and Francisco J. Navarro Izquierdo

Abstract:

Let $\mathfrak{A}$ be a non-empty set. An augmented ternary map over $\mathfrak{A}$ is any map $$ f:\mathfrak{A}\times\mathfrak{A}\times\mathfrak{A}\to\mathfrak{A}\cup\{\epsilon\} $$ with $\epsilon\notin\mathfrak{A}$. We show that any augmented ternary map $f$ over $\mathfrak{A}$ induces a decomposition on $\mathfrak{A}$ as the orthogonal disjoint union of well-described ideals. If $(\mathfrak{A},f)$ is furthermore a division $f$-triple, it is shown that the above decomposition is through the family of its simple ideals. We apply these results to different ternary structures with gradings, getting structural theorems analogous to the second Wedderburn classical theorem.

Keywords: ternary operation, triple system, grading, supertriple system, multiplicative basis, algebraic pair

Mathematics Subject Classification: 17A40, 17A60, 17Cxx