About Nonassociativity in Mathematics and Physics

Acta Applicandae Mathematicae

Volumn 50, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 3-31

  Lõhmus, Jaak ^a   Paal, Eugen ^b   Sorgsepp, Leo ^a  

^a ESTONIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^b TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Associator quantization; Birepresentation; Lie admissible algebra; Mal'tsev algebra; Moufang loop; Moufang Mal'tsev symmetry; Nonassociative algebra; Octonion algebra; Quasigroup

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002231391     PISSN: 01678019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1005854831381     Document Type: Review

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