Ore Extensions of Abelian Groups with Operators

Abstract: Given a set $A$ and an abelian group $B$ with operators in $A$, in the sense of Krull and Noether, we introduce the Ore group extension $B[x ; \delta_B , \sigma_B]$ as the additive group $B[x]$, with $A[x]$ as a set of operators. Here, the action of $A[x]$ on $B[x]$ is defined by mimicking the multiplication used in the classical case where $A$ and $B$ are the same ring. We derive generalizations of Vandermonde's and Leibniz's identities for this construction, and they are then used to establish associativity criteria. Additionally, we prove a version of Hilbert's basis theorem for this structure, under the assumption that the action of $A$ on $B$ is what we call weakly $s$-unital. Finally, we apply these results to the case where $B$ is a left module over a ring $A$, and specifically to the case where $A$ and $B$ coincide with a non-associative ring which is left distributive but not necessarily right distributive.