On the number of autotopies of an n-ary qusigroup of order 4

Abstract: An algebraic system from a finite set

S i g m a

of cardinality

k

and an

n

-ary operation

f

invertible in each argument is called an

n

-ary quasigroup of order

k

. An autotopy of an

n

-ary quasigroup

(S i g m a, f)

is a collection

(h e t a_{0}, h e t a_{1}, ..., h e t a_{n})

of

n + 1

permutations of

S i g m a

such that

f (h e t a_{1} (x_{1}), ..., h e t a_{n} (x_{n})) e q u i v h e t a_{0} (f (x_{1}, l d o t s, x_{n}))

. We show that every

n

-ary quasigroup of order

4

has at least

2^{[n / 2] + 2}

and not more than

6 c d o t 4^{n}

autotopies. We characterize the

n

-ary quasigroups of order

4

with

2^{(n + 3) / 2}

,

2 c d o t 4^{n}

, and

6 c d o t 4^{n}

autotopies.

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