Octonion multiplication and Heawood’s map
In this note, the octonion multiplication table is recovered from a regular tesselation of the equilateral two timensional torus by seven hexagons, also known as Heawood’s map.
Octonionic Cayley spinors and
Attempts to extend our previous work using the octonions to describe fundamental particles lead naturally to the consideration of a particular real, noncompact form of the exceptional Lie group , and of its subgroups. We are therefore led to a description of in terms of octonionic matrices, generalizing previous results in the case. Our treatment naturally includes a description of several important subgroups of , notably , , and (the double cover of) . An interpretation of the actions...
On free subgroups of units in quaternion algebras
It is well known that for the ring H(ℤ) of integral quaternions the unit group U(H(ℤ) is finite. On the other hand, for the rational quaternion algebra H(ℚ), its unit group is infinite and even contains a nontrivial free subgroup. In this note (see Theorem 1.5 and Corollary 2.6) we find all intermediate rings ℤ ⊂ A ⊆ ℚ such that the group of units U(H(A)) of quaternions over A contains a nontrivial free subgroup. In each case we indicate such a subgroup explicitly. We do our best to keep the arguments...
On free subgroups of units in quaternion algebras II
Let A ⊆ ℚ be any subring. We extend our earlier results on unit groups of the standard quaternion algebra H(A) to units of certain rings of generalized quaternions H(A,a,b) = ((-a,-b)/A), where a,b ∈ A. Next we show that there is an algebra embedding of the ring H(A,a,b) into the algebra of standard Cayley numbers over A. Using this embedding we answer a question asked in the first part of this paper.
On Linear and Quadratic Jordan Division Algebras.
On one-sided division infinite-dimensional normed real algebras.
In this note we introduce the concept of Cayley homomorphism which is closely related with those of composition algebra and normalized orthogonal multiplication. The key result shows the existence of certain types of Cayley homomorphisms for infinite dimension. As an application we prove the existence of left division infinite-dimensional complete normed real algebras with left unity.
On regular and extremely regular algebras
On the classification of 3-dimensional non-associative division algebras over -adic fields
Let be a prime and a -adic field (a finite extension of the field of -adic numbers ). We employ the main results in [12] and the arithmetic of elliptic curves over to reduce the problem of classifying 3-dimensional non-associative division algebras (up to isotopy) over to the classification of ternary cubic forms over (up to equivalence) with no non-trivial zeros over . We give an explicit solution to the latter problem, which we then relate to the reduction type of the jacobian...
On the classification of the real flexible division algebras
We investigate the class of finite-dimensional real flexible division algebras. We classify the commutative division algebras, completing an approach by Althoen and Kugler. We solve the isomorphism problem for scalar isotopes of quadratic division algebras, and classify the generalised pseudo-octonion algebras. In view of earlier results by Benkart, Britten and Osborn and Cuenca Mira et al., this reduces the problem of classifying the real flexible division algebras to the normal...
On the doubling of quadratic algebras
The concept of doubling, which was introduced around 1840 by Graves and Hamilton, associates with any quadratic algebra 𝓐 over a field k of characteristic not 2 its double 𝓥(𝓐 ) = 𝓐 × 𝓐 with multiplication (w,x)(y,z) = (wy - z̅x,xy̅ + zw). This yields an endofunctor on the category of all quadratic k-algebras which is faithful but not full. We study in which respect the division property of a quadratic k-algebra is preserved under doubling and, provided this is the case, whether the...
On the multiplicative structure of finite division rings.
Representation theory of local division algebras.
Reversibility in absolute-valued algebras
Rotations in the space of Split octonions.
Seeable matter; unseeable antimatter
The universe we see gives every sign of being composed of matter. This is considered a major unsolved problem in theoretical physics. Using the mathematical modeling based on the algebra , an interpretation is developed that suggests that this seeable universe is not the whole universe; there is an unseeable part of the universe composed of antimatter galaxies and stuff, and an extra 6 dimensions of space (also unseeable) linking the matter side to the antimatter—at the very least.
Some examples of real division algebras.
Some properties of octonion and quaternion algebras.
Structure des algèbres de Jordan-Banach non commutatives réelles de division
The classical Yang-Baxter equation on alternative algebras: the alternative -bialgebra structure on Cayley-Dickson matrix algebras.
Théorème de Gelfand-Mazur dans les algèbres p-normées non-associatives.