Actions and semi-direct products in categories of groups with action

TL;DR

This paper defines derived actions and semi-direct products in categories of groups with action, addressing key problems and establishing conditions for action representability in these categories.

Contribution

It introduces derived actions, semi-direct product constructions, and explores properties of reduced groups with action, advancing understanding of action representability in these categories.

Findings

Derived actions are characterized in categories of groups with action.

Semi-direct products correspond to derived actions within these categories.

Properties of reduced groups with action facilitate future studies on action representability.

Abstract

Derived actions in the category of groups with action on itself $\mathbf{Gr}^{\bullet}$ are defined and described. This category plays a crucial role in the solution of Loday's two problems stated in the literature. A full subcategory of reduced groups with action $\mathbf{rGr}^{\bullet}$ of $\mathbf{Gr}^{\bullet}$ is introduced, which is not a category of interest but has some properties, which can be applied in the investigation of action representability in this category; these properties are similar to those, which were used in the construction of universal strict general actors in the category of interest. Semi-direct product constructions are given in $\mathbf{Gr}^{\bullet}$ and $\mathbf{rGr}^{\bullet}$ and it is proved that an action is a derived action in $\mathbf{Gr}^{\bullet}$ (resp. $\mathbf{rGr}^{\bullet}$) if and only if the corresponding semi-direct product is and object of $\mathbf{Gr}^{\bullet}$ (resp. $\mathbf{rGr}^{\bullet}$). The results obtained in this paper will be applied in the forthcoming paper on the representability of actions in the category $\mathbf{rGr}^{\bullet}$.