Conjecture on isomorphism types of commutative A-loops of order p3p^3

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Let p>3p>3 be a prime. Let a1e0a_1 e 0 be a quadratic residue modulo pp and let a2e0a_2 e 0 be a quadratic nonresidue modulo pp. For the loop construction denoted by terg⁡Zpab\operatorname{terg}{\mathbb Z_p}{a}{b}, consider the loops with parameters (a1,0)(a_1,0) and (a2,0)(a_2,0).

Isomorphism-type conjecture. The loops

terg⁡Zpa10\operatorname{terg}{\mathbb Z_p}{a_1}{0}

and

terg⁡Zpa20\operatorname{terg}{\mathbb Z_p}{a_2}{0}

are not isomorphic.

The conjecture concerns whether the quadratic-residue and quadratic-nonresidue parameter classes remain distinct in the classification for primes p>3p>3. The authors state that they did not manage to establish it, and the source gives no resolution.

References

Primary source

Premysl Jedlicka, Michael Kinyon and Petr Vojtechovsky, “Constructions of commutative automorphic loops”, arXiv:0810.2114 (2010).

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