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Discrete Mathematics

Volume 309, Issue 4, 6 March 2009, Pages 821-833
Discrete Mathematics

The spectrum for quasigroups with cyclic automorphisms and additional symmetries

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Abstract

We determine necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a quasigroup of order n having an automorphism consisting of a single cycle of length m and nm fixed points, and having any combination of the additional properties of being idempotent, unipotent, commutative, semi-symmetric or totally symmetric. Quasigroups with such additional properties and symmetries are equivalent to various classes of triple systems.

Keywords

Diagonally cyclic
Quasigroup
Latin square
Steiner triple system
Mendelsohn triple system
Semi-symmetric
Totally symmetric

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