On Moufang A-loops

Jon D. Phillips

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae (2000)

  • Volume: 41, Issue: 2, page 371-375
  • ISSN: 0010-2628

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In a series of papers from the 1940’s and 1950’s, R.H. Bruck and L.J. Paige developed a provocative line of research detailing the similarities between two important classes of loops: the diassociative A-loops and the Moufang loops ([1]). Though they did not publish any classification theorems, in 1958, Bruck’s colleague, J.M. Osborn, managed to show that diassociative, commutative A-loops are Moufang ([5]). In [2] we relaunched this now over 50 year old program by examining conditions under which general — not necessarily commutative — diassociative A-loops are, in fact, Moufang. Here, we finish part of the program by characterizing Moufang A-loops. We also investigate simple diassociative A-loops as well as a class of centrally nilpotent diassociative A-loops. These results, in toto, reveal the distinguished positions two familiar classes of diassociative A-loops — namely groups and commutative Moufang loops–play in the general theory.

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Phillips, Jon D.. "On Moufang A-loops." Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae 41.2 (2000): 371-375. <http://eudml.org/doc/248615>.

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References

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  1. Bruck R.H., Paige L.J., Loops whose inner mappings are automorphisms, Ann. of Math. 63 (2) (1956), 308-232. (1956) Zbl0074.01701MR0076779
  2. Fuad T.S.R., Phillips J.D., Shen X.R., On diassociative A-loops, submitted. 
  3. Glauberman G., On loops of odd order II, J. Algebra 8 (1968), 393-414. (1968) Zbl0155.03901MR0222198
  4. Moufang R., Zur struktur von alternativkorpern, Math. Ann. 110 (1935), 416-430. (1935) MR1512948
  5. Osborn J.M., A theorem on A-loops, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 9 (1959), 347-349. (1959) MR0093555

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