Moufang loops that share associator and three quarters of their multiplication tables. (Q2477832)

As we know the classification of Moufang loops is finished only for orders less than 64. The purpose of this paper is to initiate a new approach to finite Moufang 2-loops. The authors intend to decide whether all Moufang 2-loops of given order with equivalent associator can be obtained from just one of them, using only group-theoretical constructions. The authors prove that this is the case for \(n=16\), 24, 32, which are the only orders less than or equal 32 for which there are at least two non-isomorphic nonassociative Moufang loops. The paper closes with several conjectures and research questions concerning the distance of Moufang loops.