Loops with involution and the Cayley-Dickson doubling process

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Main Authors: Chapman, Adam, Levin, Ilan, Vishne, Uzi, Zaninelli, Marco
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author Chapman, Adam
Levin, Ilan
Vishne, Uzi
Zaninelli, Marco
author_facet Chapman, Adam
Levin, Ilan
Vishne, Uzi
Zaninelli, Marco
contents We develop a theory of loops with involution. On this basis we define a Cayley-Dickson doubling on loops, and use it to investigate the lattice of varieties of loops with involution, focusing on properties that remain valid in the Cayley-Dickson double. Specializing to central-by-abelian loops with elementary abelian $2$-group quotients, we find conditions under which one can characterize the automorphism groups of iterated Cayley-Dickson doubles. A key result is a corrected proof that for $n>3$, the automorphism group of the Cayley-Dickson loop $Q_n$ is $\text{GL}_3(\mathbb{F}_2) \times \{\pm 1\}^{n-3}$.
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spellingShingle Loops with involution and the Cayley-Dickson doubling process
Chapman, Adam
Levin, Ilan
Vishne, Uzi
Zaninelli, Marco
Combinatorics
Rings and Algebras
Primary 20N05, Secondary 17A36, 20F28
We develop a theory of loops with involution. On this basis we define a Cayley-Dickson doubling on loops, and use it to investigate the lattice of varieties of loops with involution, focusing on properties that remain valid in the Cayley-Dickson double. Specializing to central-by-abelian loops with elementary abelian $2$-group quotients, we find conditions under which one can characterize the automorphism groups of iterated Cayley-Dickson doubles. A key result is a corrected proof that for $n>3$, the automorphism group of the Cayley-Dickson loop $Q_n$ is $\text{GL}_3(\mathbb{F}_2) \times \{\pm 1\}^{n-3}$.
title Loops with involution and the Cayley-Dickson doubling process
topic Combinatorics
Rings and Algebras
Primary 20N05, Secondary 17A36, 20F28
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00123