%0 Journal Article %T On hom-algebras with surjective twisting %A Aron Gohr %J Mathematics %D 2009 %I arXiv %X A hom-associative structure is a set $A$ together with a binary operation $\star$ and a selfmap $\alpha$ such that an $\alpha$-twisted version of associativity is fulfilled. In this paper, we assume that $\alpha$ is surjective. We show that in this case, under surprisingly weak additional conditions on the multiplication, the binary operation is a twisted version of an associative operation. As an application, an earlier result by Yael Fregier and the author on weakly unital hom-algebras is recovered with a different proof. In the second section, consequences for the deformation theory of hom-algebras with surjective twisting map are discussed. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.3270v3