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Orthogonal Idempotents in Symmetric Tensor Powers of Composition Algebras

Rings and Algebras 2026-04-28 v2

Abstract

We explicitly find a complete set of 14(n+2)2{1\over4}(n+2)^2 (resp. 14(n+1)(n+3){1\over4}(n+1)(n+3)) primitive orthogonal idempotents in SymnHRC{\rm Sym}^n\mathbb{H}\otimes_\mathbb{R}\mathbb{C} if nn is even (resp. odd), where SymnH{\rm Sym}^n\mathbb{H} is the nthn^{\it th} symmetric power of the Hamilton quaternion algebra H\mathbb{H}. We also give a complete set of 14(n+2)2{1\over4}(n+2)^2 (resp. 18(n+1)(n+3){1\over8}(n+1)(n+3)) primitive orthogonal idempotents in SymnH{\rm Sym}^n\mathbb{H} if nn is even (resp. odd). Moreover, we explicitly find a complete set of 124(n+2)(n+3)(n+4){1\over24}(n+2)(n+3)(n+4) (resp. 124(n+1)(n+3)(n+5){1\over24}(n+1)(n+3)(n+5)) primitive orthogonal idempotents in a certain associative subalgebra of SymnORC{\rm Sym}^n\mathbb{O}\otimes_\mathbb{R}\mathbb{C} if nn is even (resp. odd), where SymnO{\rm Sym}^n\mathbb{O} is the nthn^{\it th} symmetric power of the Cayley octonion algebra O\mathbb{O}. We also give a complete set of 124(n+2)(n+3)(n+4){1\over24}(n+2)(n+3)(n+4) (resp. 148(n+1)(n+3)(n+5){1\over48}(n+1)(n+3)(n+5)) primitive orthogonal idempotents in a certain associative subalgebra of SymnO{\rm Sym}^n\mathbb{O} if nn is even (resp. odd).

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@article{arxiv.2604.10319,
  title  = {Orthogonal Idempotents in Symmetric Tensor Powers of Composition Algebras},
  author = {Aharon Razon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.10319},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

Revised argument in the proof of part (c) of Theorem 3.5, results unchanged