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Relatives of K-loops: Theory and examples

Hubert Kiechle (2000)

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae

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...

Right division in Moufang loops

Maria de Lourdes M. Giuliani, Kenneth Walter Johnson (2010)

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae

If ( G , · ) is a group, and the operation ( * ) is defined by x * y = x · y - 1 then by direct verification ( G , * ) is a quasigroup which satisfies the identity ( x * y ) * ( z * y ) = x * z . Conversely, if one starts with a quasigroup satisfying the latter identity the group ( G , · ) can be constructed, so that in effect ( G , · ) 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...

Schreier loops

Péter T. Nagy, Karl Strambach (2008)

Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal

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.

Selfdistributive groupoids of small orders

Jaroslav Ježek, Tomáš Kepka (1997)

Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal

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.

Semisymmetrization and Mendelsohn quasigroups

Jonathan D. H. Smith (2020)

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae

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...

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