The paper surveys the known results concerning the question: “For what values of does there exist a nonassociative Moufang loop of order ?” Proofs of the newest results for odd, and a complete resolution of the case even are also presented.
Possession of a unique nonidentity commutator/associator is a property which dominates the theory of loops whose loop rings, while not associative, nevertheless satisfy an ``interesting'' identity. Indeed, until now, with the exception of some ad hoc examples, the only known class of Bol loops whose loop rings satisfy the right Bol identity have this property. In this paper, we identify another class of loops whose loop rings are ``strongly right alternative'' and present various constructions of...
We investigate finite Moufang loops with a unique nonidentity commutator which are not associative, but all of whose proper subloops are associative. Curiously, perhaps, such loops turn out to be ``ring alternative'', in the sense that their loop rings are alternative rings.
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