Antiassociative Groupoids
Rings and Algebras
2014-10-29 v1
Abstract
Given a groupoid , and , we say that is antiassociative iff for all , and are never equal. Generalizing this, is -antiassociative iff for all , any two distinct expressions made by putting parentheses in are never equal. We prove that for every , there exist finite groupoids that are -antiassociative. We then generalize this, investigating when other pairs of groupoid terms can be made never equal.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1410.7501,
title = {Antiassociative Groupoids},
author = {Milton Braitt and David Hobby and Donald Silberger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.7501},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
20 pages, 2 figures. Submitted to Journal of Algebra