Relations Among Some Classes Of Quasigroups.
A K-loop or Bruck loop is a Bol loop with the automorphic inverse property. An overview of the most important theorems on K-loops and some of their relatives, especially Kikkawa loops, is given. First, left power alternative loops are discussed, then Kikkawa loops are considered. In particular, their nuclei are determined. Then the attention is paid to general K-loops and some special classes of K-loops such as 2-divisible ones. To construct examples, the method of derivation is introduced. This...
If is a group, and the operation is defined by then by direct verification is a quasigroup which satisfies the identity . Conversely, if one starts with a quasigroup satisfying the latter identity the group can be constructed, so that in effect is determined by its right division operation. Here the analogous situation is examined for a Moufang loop. Subtleties arise which are not present in the group case since there is a choice of defining identities and the identities produced by...
We study systematically the natural generalization of Schreier's extension theory to obtain proper loops and show that this construction gives a rich family of examples of loops in all traditional common, important loop classes.
After enumerating isomorphism types of at most five-element left distributive groupoids, we prove that a distributive groupoid with less than 81 elements is necessarily medial.
The semisymmetrization of an arbitrary quasigroup builds a semisymmetric quasigroup structure on the cube of the underlying set of the quasigroup. It serves to reduce homotopies to homomorphisms. An alternative semisymmetrization on the square of the underlying set was recently introduced by A. Krapež and Z. Petrić. Their construction in fact yields a Mendelsohn quasigroup, which is idempotent as well as semisymmetric. We describe it as the Mendelsohnization of the original quasigroup. For quasigroups...
Simple quasigroups with commuting inner permutations are medial.