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I wouldn't rank this as any sort of answer, but one time when looking at set maps from one group to another I discovered that such things were sometimes called "near rings" and another thing related to them are "composition rings". If you haven't heard those before, it might be worth looking them up. At the very least, your maps will be elements of something like a "near ring" that satisfy some additional property.