In this short paper, we survey the results on commutative automorphic loops and give a new construction method. Using this method, we present new classes of commutative automorphic loops of exponent with trivial center.
In this paper we consider finite loops whose inner mapping groups are nilpotent. We first consider the case where the inner mapping group of a loop is the direct product of a dihedral group of order and an abelian group. Our second result deals with the case where is a -loop and is a nilpotent group whose nonabelian Sylow subgroups satisfy a special condition. In both cases it turns out that is centrally nilpotent.
Using a lemma on subnormal subgroups, the problem of nilpotency of multiplication groups and inner permutation groups of centrally nilpotent loops is discussed.
The -fold product of an arbitrary space usually supports only the obvious permutation action of the symmetric group . However, if is a -complete, homotopy associative, homotopy commutative -space one can define a homotopy action of on . In various cases, e.g. if multiplication by is null homotopic then we get a homotopy action of for some . After one suspension this allows one to split using idempotents of which can be lifted to . In fact all of this is possible if is an -space...