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

DOI10.1216/RMJM/1181069461zbMATH Open1136.20051arXivmath/0701710OpenAlexW1997074865MaRDI QIDQ2477832FDOQ2477832

Petr Vojtěchovský, Aleš Drápal

Publication date: 14 March 2008

Published in: Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Two constructions due to Dr'apal produce a group by modifying exactly one quarter of the Cayley table of another group. We present these constructions in a compact way, and generalize them to Moufang loops, using loop extensions. Both constructions preserve associators, the associator subloop, and the nucleus. We conjecture that two Moufang 2-loops of finite order $n$ with equivalent associator can be connected by a series of constructions similar to ours, and offer empirical evidence that this is so for $n=16$, 24, 32; the only interesting cases with $nle32$. We further investigate the way the constructions affect code loops and loops of type $M(G,2)$. The paper closes with several conjectures and research questions concerning the distance of Moufang loops, classification of small Moufang loops, and generalizations of the two constructions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0701710

zbMATH Keywords

associatorsdihedral groupsCayley tablesfinite loopscode loopsKlein 4-groupdistances of Moufang loopsMoufang 2-loops

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Orthogonal arrays, Latin squares, Room squares (05B15) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Loops, quasigroups (20N05)

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• GAP

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