Right division in groups, Dedekind-Frobenius group matrices, and Ward quasigroups.
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Right division in groups, Dedekind-Frobenius group matrices, and Ward quasigroups.
zbMATH Open document ID: 1104.20063
DOI: 10.1007/BF02942039
author: Petr Vojtěchovský
author: Kenneth Johnson
published in: Abhandlungen aus dem Mathematischen Seminar der Universität Hamburg
publication date: 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0701716
review text: The variety of quasigroups satisfying the identity \((xy)(zy)=xz\) connected to groups offers a new look at groups and their multiplication table. Several authors have characterized groups using the operation of right division instead of the operation of multiplication \(x\cdot y\) [see \textit{M. Ward}, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 32, 520-526 (1930; JFM 56.0136.02)]. In this paper the authors suggest that there are some advantages connected to the added symmetry of the multiplication tables. In fact these tables are a reincarnation of the group matrices which Frobenius used to give the first account of group representation theory. The authors show that every group matrix may be written as a block circulant matrix and that this result leads to partial diagonalization of groups matrices. The authors also discuss a generalization of Ward quasigroups. The name Ward quasigroups was coined by us in 1978 [see \textit{J. Machado Cardoso} and \textit{C. Pereira da Silva}, An. Ştiinţ. Univ. Al. I. Cuza Iaşi, N. Ser., Secţ. Ia 24, 231-233 (1978; Zbl 0413.20053)]. We solved a problem concerned with the structures of quasigroups and groups in the same set. On page 2, we gave the definition of Ward quasigroup. We also studied Ward quasigroups corresponding to Abelian groups, called subtractive quasigroups [see \textit{C. Pereira da Silva}, Rev. Colomb. Mat. 12, 91-96 (1978; Zbl 0421.20036)]. In that paper we showed that Ward quasigroups are quasigroups satisfying the identity: \((x*y)*(z*y)=x*z\).
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20N05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20C15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20A05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20C05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 15A21
zbMATH DE Number: 2245672
zbMATH Keywords: Ward quasigroups
zbMATH Keywords: group determinants
zbMATH Keywords: Cayley tables
zbMATH Keywords: multiplication tables
zbMATH Keywords: group matrices
zbMATH Keywords: block circulant matrices
zbMATH Keywords: identities
reviewed by: C. Pereira da Silva
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
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