Extending Abelian Groups to Rings

For any abelian group G and any function f : G → G we define a commutative binary operation or “multiplication” on G in terms of f . We give necessary and sufficient conditions on f for G to extend to a commutative ring with the new multiplication. In the case where G is an elementary abelian p-group of odd order, we classify those functions which extend G to a ring and show, under an equivalence relation we call weak isomorphism, that there are precisely six distinct classes of rings constructed using this method with additive group the elementary abelian p-group of odd order p.