The Cayley-Dickson doubling products
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to identify all of the Cayley-Dickson doubling products. A Cayley-Dickson algebra of dimension consists of all ordered pairs of elements of a Cayley-Dickson algebra of dimension where the product of elements of is defined in terms of a pair of second degree binomials satisfying certain properties. The polynomial pair is called a `doubling product.' While may denote any ring, here it is taken to be the set of real numbers. The binomials and should be devised such that the complex numbers, the quaternions, and the octonions . Historically, various researchers have used some but not all of these doubling products.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1707.07318,
title = {The Cayley-Dickson doubling products},
author = {John W. Bales},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.07318},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
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