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Title: Right division in Moufang loops (English)
Author: Giuliani, Maria de Lourdes M.
Author: Johnson, Kenneth W.
Language: English
Journal: Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae
ISSN: 0010-2628 (print)
ISSN: 1213-7243 (online)
Volume: 51
Issue: 2
Year: 2010
Pages: 209-215
Summary lang: English
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Category: math
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Summary: If $(G,\cdot )$ is a group, and the operation $(\ast )$ is defined by $x\ast y=x\cdot y^{-1}$ then by direct verification $(G,\ast )$ is a quasigroup which satisfies the identity $(x\ast y)\ast (z\ast y)=x\ast z$. Conversely, if one starts with a quasigroup satisfying the latter identity the group $(G,\cdot )$ can be constructed, so that in effect $(G,\cdot )$ is determined by its right division operation. Here the analogous situation is examined for a Moufang loop. Subtleties arise which are not present in the group case since there is a choice of defining identities and the identities produced by replacing loop multiplication by right division give identities in which loop inverses appear. However, it is possible with further work to obtain an identity in terms of $(\ast )$ alone. The construction of the Moufang loop from a quasigroup satisfying this identity is significantly more difficult than in the group case, and it was first carried out using the software Prover9. Subsequently a purely algebraic proof of the construction was obtained. (English)
Keyword: Moufang loop
Keyword: Prover9
MSC: 20-04
MSC: 20N05
idZBL: Zbl 1211.20058
idMR: MR2682474
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Date available: 2010-05-21T12:44:22Z
Last updated: 2014-07-30
Stable URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10338.dmlcz/140100
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Reference: [1] Zhevlakov K.A., Slin'ko A.M., Shestakov I.P., Shirshov A.I.: Rings That Are Nearly Associative.Pure and Applied Mathematics, 104, Academic Press, New York-London, 1982. Zbl 0487.17001, MR 0668355
Reference: [2] Johnson K.W., Vojtěchovský P.: Right division in groups, Dedekind-Frobenius group matrices, and Ward quasigroups.Abh. Math. Sem. Univ. Hamburg 75 (2005), 121–136. MR 2187582, 10.1007/BF02942039
Reference: [3] McCune W.W.: Prover$9$, automated reasoning software, and Mace$4$, finite model builder.Argonne National Laboratory, 2005, http://www.prover9.org.
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