Status Report of LPCC Forward Physics Group

We report here about activities of newly formed working group aiming to define a forward and diffractive physics program at the LHC for the years to come

The endomorphism semiring of a semilattice

We prove that the endomorphism semiring of a nontrivial semilattice is always subdirectly irreducible and describe its monolith. The endomorphism semiring is congruence simple if and only if the semilattice has both a least and a largest element

The Structure of F-Quasigroups

We solve a problem of Belousov which has been open since 1967: to characterize the loop isotopes of F-quasigroups. We show that every F-quasigroup has a Moufang loop isotope which is a central product of its nucleus and Moufang center. We then use the loop to reveal the structure of the associated F-quasigroup.Comment: 24 pages. v.2 incorporates minor changes suggested by the referee. To appear in the Journal of Algebr