A categorical approach to loops, neardomains and nearfields.

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Authors Philippe Cara, R. W. Kieboom, Tina Vervloet

Publication date 17 January 2013

Published in Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society - Simon Stevin (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.3600, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bbms/1354031553

zbMATH Keywords

categories of loopscategories of neardomainscategories of nearfieldsequivalences of categoriesregular permutation setssharply 2-transitive groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Near-fields (12K05) Module categories in associative algebras (16D90) Epimorphisms, monomorphisms, special classes of morphisms, null morphisms (18A20) Multiply transitive infinite groups (20B22) Loops, quasigroups (20N05)

Abstract: In this paper we study loops, neardomains and nearfields from a categorical point of view. By choosing the right kind of morphisms, we can show that the category of neardomains is equivalent to the category of sharply 2-transitive groups. The other categories are also shown to be equivalent with categories whose objects are sets of permutations with suitable extra properties. Up to now the equivalence between neardomains and sharply 2-transitive groups was only known when both categories were equipped with the obvious isomorphisms as morphisms. We thank Hubert Kiechle for this observation.

Review text

The authors state an equivalence between the categories of sharply 2-transitive groups and neardomains. This equivalence was basically known if the morphisms are taken to be isomorphisms. New is the use of injective homomorphisms as morphisms. This reviewer is convinced that the distinction between characteristic~\(2\) or not is unnecessary in the definition of morphisms for sharply 2-transitive groups, as the desired result seems to follow from known properties of the set of involutions. As a warm up the authors construct an -- in essence well-known -- equivalence for loops and regular permutation sets.

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