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Coxeter-Chein Loops

Group Theory 2011-10-31 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

In 1974 Orin Chein discovered a new family of Moufang loops which are now called Chein loops. Such a loop can be created from any group WW together with Z2\mathbb{Z}_2 by a variation on a semi-direct product. We study these loops in the case where WW is a Coxeter group and show that it has what we call a Chein-Coxeter system, a small set of generators of order 2, together with a set of relations closely related to the Coxeter relations and Chein relations. As a result we are able to give amalgam presentations for Coxeter-Chein loops. This is to our knowledge the first such presentation for a Moufang loop.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1110.6390,
  title  = {Coxeter-Chein Loops},
  author = {Rieuwert J. Blok and Stephen Gagola},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.6390},
  year   = {2011}
}

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Keywords: Coxeter groups, amalgams, Moufang loops, generators and relations

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