Loops and quasigroups: Aspects of current work and prospects for the future

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 415-427

  Smith, Jonathan D H ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cayley numbers; Centraliser ring; Conway algebra; Fusion rule; Ising model; Knot; Lindenbaum Tarski duality; Link; Loop; Loop transversal; Loop transversal code; Multiplication group; Multiplicity free; Net; Octonions; Quandle; Quasigroup; Sedenions; Semisymmetric; Split extension; Statistical dimension; Surgery; Vector field; Web

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005317437     PISSN: 00102628     EISSN: 12137243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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