recently‎, ‎the authors gave some conditions under which a direct product‎ ‎of finitely many groups is $mathcal{v}-$capable if and only if each of its‎ ‎factors is $mathcal{v}-$capable for some varieties $mathcal{v}$‎. ‎in this paper‎, ‎we extend this fact to any infinite direct product of groups‎. ‎moreover‎, ‎we conclude some results for $mathcal{v}-$capability of direct products of infinitel...

We consider the standard semi-direct product AoB of finite groups A,B. We show that with certain choices of generators for these three groups, the Cayley graph of A o B is (essentially) the zigzag product of the Cayley graphs of A and B. Thus, using the results of [RVW00], the new Cayley graph is an expander if and only if its two components are. We develop some general ways of using this const...

The quaternion group Q8 is one of the two non-abelian groups of size 8 (up to isomorphism). The other one, D4, can be constructed as a semi-direct product: D4 ∼= Aff(Z/(4)) ∼= Z/(4) o (Z/(4))× ∼= Z/(4) o Z/(2), where the elements of Z/(2) act on Z/(4) as the identity and negation. While Q8 is not a semi-direct product, it can be constructed as the quotient group of a semi-direct product. We wil...

Pseudo-Galois extensions are shown to be depth two extensions. Studying its left bialgebroid, we construct an enveloping Hopf algebroid for the semi-direct product of groups or involutive Hopf algebras and their module algebras. It is a type of cofibered sum of two inclusions of the Hopf algebra into the semi-direct product and its derived right crossed product. Van Oystaeyen and Panaite observ...