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

DOI10.1216/RMJM/1181069461MaRDI QIDQ2477832zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Aleš Drápal, Petr Vojtěchovský

Publication date 14 March 2008

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0701710, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmjm/1181069461

zbMATH Keywords

associatorsCayley tablescode loopsdihedral groupsdistances of Moufang loopsfinite loopsKlein 4-groupMoufang 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)

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.

Review text

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.

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