Coxeter-Chein loops

DOI10.1080/00927872.2012.753605MaRDI QIDQ5412071zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rieuwert J. Blok, Stephen M. III Gagola

Publication date 25 April 2014

Published in Communications in Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.6390

zbMATH Keywords

amalgamsChein loopsChein-Coxeter systemsCoxeter groupsgenerators and relationsminimal presentationsMoufang loops

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Loops, quasigroups (20N05)

Abstract: In 1974 Orin Chein discovered a new family of Moufang loops which are now called Chein loops. Such a loop can be created from any group $W$ together with $mathbb{Z}_2$ by a variation on a semi-direct product. We study these loops in the case where $W$ is a Coxeter group and show that it has what we call a Chein-Coxeter system, a small set of generators of order 2, together with a set of relations closely related to the Coxeter relations and Chein relations. As a result we are able to give amalgam presentations for Coxeter-Chein loops. This is to our knowledge the first such presentation for a Moufang loop.

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