Coverings of the smallest Paige loop.

DOI10.1007/S10801-011-0284-6MaRDI QIDQ644694zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephen M. III Gagola

Publication date 7 November 2011

Published in Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10801-011-0284-6

zbMATH Keywords

covering numbersfinite simple Moufang loopsgeneralized hexagonsPaige loopssplit Cayley hexagonsunions of subloops

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Loops, quasigroups (20N05) Generalized quadrangles and generalized polygons in finite geometry (51E12)

Review text

If \(G\) is a loop then we say that the smallest number of subloops needed to cover \(G\) is the covering number of \(G\). It was shown by \textit{M. J. Tomkinson} [in Math. Scand. 81, No. 2, 191-198 (1997; Zbl 0905.20014)] that there does not exist a group with a covering number of seven. He also conjectured that there are no groups with a covering number of eleven. Coverings of groups have been broadly explored and some results have been shown by \textit{T. Foguel} and \textit{L.-C. Kappe} [in Expo. Math. 23, No. 3, 255-270 (2005; Zbl 1103.20064)] to also hold for loops. The author proves in this paper that even though there does not exist a group with a covering number of seven, there does exist a finite simple Moufang loops, namely a Paige loop, that has seven as its covering number. Moreover, its automorphism group permutes all such coverings, with seven proper subloops, transitively.

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