On Curtis’ theorem about finite octonionic loops

On Curtis’ theorem about finite octonionic loops
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by Paul Boddington and Dmitriy Rumynin PDF

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 135 (2007), 1651-1657 Request permission

We prove a stronger version of Curtis’ classification theorem of finite subloops of the Cayley octonions $\mathbb {O}$.

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