Automorphism groups of simple Moufang loops over perfect fields

DOI10.1017/S0305004103006716MaRDI QIDQ4461532zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. P. Nagy, Petr Vojtěchovský

Publication date 18 May 2004

Published in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0701700

zbMATH Keywords

automorphism groupscomposition algebrasperfect fieldssemilinear automorphismssimple Moufang loopssplit octonion algebrasunits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonassociative division algebras (17A35) Automorphisms, derivations, other operators (nonassociative rings and algebras) (17A36) Loops, quasigroups (20N05) Linear incidence geometry (51A99)

Abstract: Let $F$ be a perfect field and $M^{\ast }(F)$ the nonassociative simple Moufang loop consisting of the units in the (unique) split octonion algebra $O(F)$ modulo the center. Then $Aut(M^{\ast }(F))$ is equal to $G_2(F)timesAut(F)$. In particular, every automorphism of $M^{\ast }(F)$ is induced by a semilinear automorphism of $O(F)$. The proof combines results and methods from geometrical loop theory, groups of Lie type and composition algebras; its gist being an identification of the automorphism group of a Moufang loop with a subgroup of the automorphism group of the associated group with triality.

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