Associating hypergraphs defined on loops

Abstract

In this paper, we define a new hypergraph $\mathcal{H}(\mathcal{V},\mathcal{E})$ on a loop $L$, where $\mathcal{V}$ is the set of points of the loop $L$ and $\mathcal{E}$ is the set of hyperedges $e=\{x,y,z\}$ such that $x,y$ and $z$ associate in the order they are written. We call this hypergraph as the associating hypergraph on a loop $L$. We study certain properites of associating hypergraphs on the Moufang loop $M(D_n,2)$, where $D_n$ denotes the dihedral group of order $2n$.