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The Cayley-Dickson doubling products

Authors :
Bales, John W.
Source :
Adv. Appl. Clifford Algebras (2016) 26: 529
Publication Year :
2017

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to identify all of the Cayley-Dickson doubling products. A Cayley-Dickson algebra $\mathbb{A}_{N+1}$ of dimension $2^{N+1}$ consists of all ordered pairs of elements of a Cayley-Dickson algebra $\mathbb{A}_{N}$ of dimension $2^N$ where the product $(a,b)(c,d)$ of elements of $\mathbb{A}_{N+1}$ is defined in terms of a pair of second degree binomials $\left(f(a,b,c,d),g(a,b,c,d)\right)$ satisfying certain properties. The polynomial pair$(f,g)$ is called a `doubling product.' While $\mathbb{A}_{0}$ may denote any ring, here it is taken to be the set $\mathbb{R}$ of real numbers. The binomials $f$ and $g$ should be devised such that $\mathbb{A}_{1}=\mathbb{C}$ the complex numbers, $\mathbb{A}_{2}=\mathbb{H}$ the quaternions, and $\mathbb{A}_{3}=\mathbb{O}$ the octonions . Historically, various researchers have used some but not all of these doubling products.<br />Comment: 32 candidates for alternate Cayley-Dickson doubling products are winnowed down to 8 products. Four of these products produce, at the third doubling, the octonions and four produce non-octonion but alternative algebras

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
Adv. Appl. Clifford Algebras (2016) 26: 529
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1707.07318
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00006-015-0638-6