On Moufang loops that are abelian groups over the nucleus

Abstract

We give some necessary and sufficient conditions for the equivalency of the following two properties for a Moufang loop Q: Q over the nucleus Q/N is an abelian group and Q over the center is a group. We study those properties of Moufang loops which guarantee that L(y, x) is in the automorphism group of the loop. These imply numerous statements, among them there are well-known old results.