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Stein quasigroups I: Combinatorial aspects
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2009
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This paper, in conjunction with its algebraic sequel, aims to provide a foundation, long outstanding, to the theory of quasigroups obeying the law x(xy) = yx , otherwise known as Stein quasigroups.
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