Skolem-Noether for nilpotent products

Abstract

We consider the structure of groups and algebras that can be represented as automorphisms or derivations of distributive products -- which includes nonassociative rings, modules, forms, and commutation of groups and nonassociative loops. In many ways this is too broad to be possible, for instance even naive structure, such as inner automorphisms and derivations, are undefined for general bilinear maps. The appeal for working in this generality is broad applicability. We introduce fundamental structures and prove several results akin to ones in ring theory, including theorems of Morita and of Skolem-Noether type. Applications and examples are included.Comment: 29 pages, 2 figures, 1 tabl