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Keywords:
F-quasigroup; NK-loop; Moufang loop
Summary:
T. Kepka, M.K. Kinyon and J.D. Phillips: The structure of F-quasigroups, J. Algebra 317 (2007), no. 2, 435--461 developed a connection between F-quasigroups and NK-loops. Since NK-loops are contained in the variety generated by groups and commutative Moufang loops, a question that arises is whether or not there exists a nonsplit NK-loop and likewise a nonsplit F-quasigroup. Here we prove that there do indeed exist nonsplit F-quasigroups and show that there are exactly four corresponding nonsplit NK-loops of minimal order $3^6$.
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