Smooth skew-morphisms of the dihedral groups

Abstract

A skew-morphism $\varphi$ of a finite group $A$ is a permutation on $A$ such that $\varphi(1)=1$ and $\varphi(xy)=\varphi(x)\varphi^{\pi(x)}(y)$ for all $x,y\in A$ where $\pi:A\to\mathbb{Z}_{|\varphi|}$ is an integer function. A skew-morphism is smooth if $\pi(\varphi(x))=\pi(x)$ for all $x\in A$. The concept of smooth skew-morphisms is a generalization of that of $t$-balanced skew-morphisms. The aim of the paper is to develop a general theory of smooth skew-morphisms. As an application we classify smooth skew-morphisms of the dihedral groups.