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Abstract
Classical quasigroups coordinatize structures called 3-nets in combinatorics, and 3-webs in geometry. The coordinatization is up to isotopy, a relation coarser than isomorphism. The semisymmetrization of a classical quasigroup is built on the cube of the underlying set of the quasigroup. Isotopic quasigroups have isomorphic semisymmetrizations.
Quantum quasigroups provide a self-dual unification (with both a multiplication and a comultiplication) of quasigroups and Hopf algebras, in the general setting of symmetric monoidal categories. Linear quantum quasigroups are quantum quasigroups in categories of vector spaces or modules over a commutative ring, with the direct sum as the Cartesian monoidal product.
With a view to addressing the quantization of web geometry, the paper determines linear quantum quasigroup structures that provide comultiplications to extend the semisymmetrization multiplication of a linear quasigroup. In particular, if the linear quasigroup structure comes from a real or complex affine plane, a complete classification of the quantum semisymmetric comultiplications is provided, based on the solution of a system of cubic equations.
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