Vorträge in der Woche 09.06.2008 bis 15.06.2008

Montag, 09.06.2008: Bol Loops vom Exponent 2

PD Dr. Barbara Baumeister

Every Latin Square whose entries are the numbers in [n] 1, ldots , n can be thought of as the table of a binary operation circ on [n] . If it contains a neutral element, then ([n], circ) is a em loop . Loops appear naturally in physics, computer science, geometry and group theory. Those which satisfy a weak associativity, so called em Bol loops, are of special interest. I will motivate the major long standing open questions on Bol loops as well as their answers, which is joint work with Alexander Stein. Finally I will give an application to graphs.