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Varieties of idempotent slim groupoids

Jaroslav Ježek (2007)

Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal

Idempotent slim groupoids are groupoids satisfying x x x ̄ and x ( y z ) x ̄ z . We prove that the variety of idempotent slim groupoids has uncountably many subvarieties. We find a four-element, inherently nonfinitely based idempotent slim groupoid; the variety generated by this groupoid has only finitely many subvarieties. We investigate free objects in some varieties of idempotent slim groupoids determined by permutational equations.

When is it hard to show that a quasigroup is a loop?

Anthony Donald Keedwell (2008)

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae

We contrast the simple proof that a quasigroup which satisfies the Moufang identity ( x · y z ) x = x y · z x is necessarily a loop (Moufang loop) with the remarkably involved prof that a quasigroup which satisfies the Moufang identity ( x y · z ) y = x ( y · z y ) is likewise necessarily a Moufang loop and attempt to explain why the proofs are so different in complexity.

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