The aim of the Expositions is to present new and important developments in pure and applied mathematics. Well established in the community over more than two decades, the series offers a large library of mathematical works, including several important classics. The volumes supply thorough and detailed expositions of the methods and ideas essential to the topics in question. In addition, they convey their relationships to other parts of mathematics. The series is addressed to advanced readers interested in a thorough study of the subject. Editorial Board Lev Birbrair, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, BrasilWalter D. Neumann, Columbia University, New York, USAMarkus J. Pflaum, University of Colorado, Boulder, USADierk Schleicher, Jacobs University, Bremen, GermanyKatrin Wendland, University of Freiburg, Germany Honorary Editor Victor P. Maslov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Titles in planning include Yuri A. Bahturin, Identical Relations in Lie Algebras (2019)Yakov G. Berkovich, Lev G. Kazarin, and Emmanuel M. Zhmud', Characters of Finite Groups, Volume 2 (2019)Jorge Herbert Soares de Lira, Variational Problems for Hypersurfaces in Riemannian Manifolds (2019)Volker Mayer, Mariusz Urbaski, and Anna Zdunik, Random and Conformal Dynamical Systems (2021)Ioannis Diamantis, Botjan Gabrovek, Sofia Lambropoulou, and Maciej Mroczkowski, Knot Theory of Lens Spaces (2021)

Autorentext
Prof. Dr. Karl Strambach ist seit 1972 ordentlicher Professor an der Universität Erlangen. Nach seiner Habilitation arbeitete er zunächst als Universitätsdozent und Wissenschaftlicher Rat an der Universität Tübingen sowie als Professor an der Universität Kiel. 2007 wurde ihm vonder Universität Debrecen die Ehrendoktorwürde verliehen.

Inhalt
Preface · Notation · Introduction Part I: General theory of transitive sections in groups and the geometry of loops Elements of the theory of loops · Scheerer extensions of loops · Nets associated with loops · Local 3-nets · Loop-sections covered by 1-parameter subgroups and geodesic loops · Bol loops and symmetric spaces · Bol nets · Strongly topological and analytic Bol loops · Core of a Bol loop and Bruck loops · Bruck loops and symmetric quasigroups over groups · Topological and differentiable Bruck loops · Bruck loops in algebraic groups · Core-related Bol loops · Products and loops as sections in compact Lie groups · Loops on symmetric spaces of groups · Loops with compact translation groups and compact Bol loops · Sharply transitive normal subgroups Part II: Smooth loops on low dimensional manifolds Loops on 1-manifolds · Topological loops on 2-dimensional manifolds · Topological loops on tori · Topological loops on the cylinder and on the plane · The hyperbolic plane loop and its isotopism class · 3-dimensional solvable left translation groups · Classification of differentiable 2-dimensional Bol loops · Collineation groups of 4-dimensional Bol nets · Strongly left alternative plane left A-loops · Loops with Lie group of all translations · Multiplicative loops of quasifields Bibliography