Quasifields with irreducible nuclei (Q801530)

This is a continuation of the author's paper ''The multiplicative groups of quasifields'' (to appear). The article under review deals with finite quasifields Q having a subgroup of either the right or middle nucleus of Q which acts irreducibly as a group of linear transformations on Q as a vector space over its kernel. It is shown that Q is a generalized André system, an irregular nearfield, a Lüneburg exceptional quasifield of type \(R^*p\) or type \(F^*p\), or one of four other possibilities having order 25, 25, 49, or 121, respectively. This generalizes earlier work of Lüneburg and Ostrom about generalized André systems, and it shows the similarity of the Lüneburg exceptional quasifields to the generalized André systems.