Minimally nonassociative nilpotent Moufang loops. (Q1409755)

The authors consider the following question: Which varieties of Moufang loops have the property that the minimally nonassociative loops in the variety are precisely those which are indecomposable and which can be generated by three elements? The paper investigates the variety of centrally nilpotent Moufang loops and finds that while this variety as a whole does not have the property in question, the subvariety consisting of Moufang loops which are centrally nilpotent of class 2 does.