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In the paper it is proved that the projective groupL 2(q) cannot be the automorphism group of a finite left distributive quasigroup. This is a special case of the conjecture according to which the automorphism group of a left distributive quasigroup is solvable.
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Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 63, No. 5, pp. 725–728, May, 1998.
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Leshcheva, S.V., Suvorova, O.V. On the ϕ-structure on the projective groupL 2(q). Math Notes 63, 638–640 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02312845
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