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Varieties Of Steiner Loops and Steiner Quasigroups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Robert W. Quackenbush
Robert W. Quackenbush*
Affiliation:
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba
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A Steiner Triple System (STS) is a pair (P, B) where P is a set of points and B is a set of 3-elenient subsets of P called blocks (or triples) such that for distinct p, q ∈ P there is a unique block b ∈ B with ﹛p, q) ⊂ b. There are two well-known methods for turning Steiner Triple Systems into algebras; both methods are due to R. H. Bruck [1]. Each method gives rise to a variety of algebras; in this paper we will study these varieties.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 28 , Issue 6 , 01 December 1976 , pp. 1187 - 1198
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1976

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