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A generalization of the first Tits construction

Rings and Algebras 2024-03-26 v1

Abstract

Let FF be a field of characteristic not 2 or 3. The first Tits construction is a well-known tripling process to construct separable cubic Jordan algebras, especially Albert algebras. We generalize the first Tits construction by choosing the scalar employed in the tripling process outside of the base field. This yields a new family of nonassociative unital algebras which carry a cubic map, and maps that can be viewed as generalized adjoint and generalized trace maps. These maps display properties often similar to the ones in the classical setup. In particular, the cubic norm map permits some kind of weak Jordan composition law.

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@article{arxiv.2403.16342,
  title  = {A generalization of the first Tits construction},
  author = {Thomas Moran and Susanne Pumpluen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.16342},
  year   = {2024}
}
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