The structure of commutative automorphic loops
Authors:
Přemysl Jedlička, Michael Kinyon and Petr Vojtěchovský
Journal:
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 363 (2011), 365-384
MSC (2010):
Primary 20N05
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-2010-05088-3
Published electronically:
August 16, 2010
MathSciNet review:
2719686
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Abstract: An automorphic loop (or A-loop) is a loop whose inner mappings are automorphisms. Every element of a commutative A-loop generates a group, and
holds. Let
be a finite commutative A-loop and
a prime. The loop
has order a power of
if and only if every element of
has order a power of
. The loop
decomposes as a direct product of a loop of odd order and a loop of order a power of
. If
is of odd order, it is solvable. If
is a subloop of
, then
divides
. If
divides
, then
contains an element of order
. If there is a finite simple nonassociative commutative A-loop, it is of exponent
.
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Přemysl Jedlička
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Engineering, Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamýcká 129, 165 21 Prague 6-Suchdol, Czech Republic
Email:
jedlickap@tf.czu.cz
Michael Kinyon
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Denver, 2360 S Gaylord St., Denver, Colorado 80208
Email:
mkinyon@math.du.edu
Petr Vojtěchovský
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Denver, 2360 S Gaylord St., Denver, Colorado 80208
Email:
petr@math.du.edu
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-2010-05088-3
Received by editor(s):
October 6, 2008
Received by editor(s) in revised form:
March 31, 2009
Published electronically:
August 16, 2010
Additional Notes:
The first author was supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, grant no. 201/07/P015.
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