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Diassociative groupoids are not finitely based

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

David M. Clark
Affiliation:
Emory University Atlanta, GeorgiaU.S.A.
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In [2] Evans and Neumann raised the question of whether diassociativity in groupoids or loops is equivalent to a finite set of identities and in [3], Neumann still lists the problem as unsolved. It is the purpose of this paper to show that the answer to the question for groupoids is negative.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1970

References

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