(Re)constructing code loops

DOI10.1080/00029890.2021.1852047MaRDI QIDQ5150907zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ben Nagy, David Michael Roberts

Publication date 16 February 2021

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.02748

zbMATH Keywords

computational methodsMoufang loopsreconstructing code loops

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Loops, quasigroups (20N05) Cryptography (94A60)

Abstract: The Moufang loop named for Richard Parker is a central extension of the extended binary Golay code. It the prototypical example of a general class of nonassociative structures known today as code loops, which have been studied from a number of different algebraic and combinatorial perspectives. This expository article aims to highlight an experimental approach to computing in code loops, by a combination of a small amount of precomputed information and making use of the rich identities that code loops' twisted cocycles satisfy. As a byproduct we demonstrate that one can reconstruct the multiplication in Parker's loop from a mere fragment of its twisted cocycle. We also give relatively large subspaces of the Golay code over which Parker's loop splits as a direct product.

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