Smooth skew-morphisms of the dihedral groups

A skew-morphism $\varphi$ of a finite group $A$ is a permutation on $A$ such that $\varphi(1)=1$ and $\varphi(xy)=\varphi(x)\varphi^{π(x)}(y)$ for all $x,y\in A$ where $π:A\to\mathbb{Z}_{|\varphi|}$ is an integer function. A skew-morphism is smooth if $π(\varphi(x))=π(x)$ 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.