Symmetric Sets With Midpoints and Algebraically Equivalent Theories

Results in Mathematics

Volumn 46, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 37-56

  Lawson, Jimmie ^a   Lim, Yongdo ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

20F50; 20K25; 20N05; 51F15; B loop; idempotent quasigroup; involutive group; mean; midpoint; polar decomposition; symmetric set; symmetric space

Indexed keywords

EID: 85053840099     PISSN: 14226383     EISSN: 14209012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03322869     Document Type: Article

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