Octonion multiplication and Heawood's map
Rings and Algebras
2011-06-30 v1 Combinatorics
Abstract
In this note, the octonion multiplication table is recovered from a regular tesselation of the "equilateral" two dimensional torus by seven hexagons, also known as Heawood's map.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1106.6015,
title = {Octonion multiplication and Heawood's map},
author = {Bruno Sévennec},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.6015},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
6 pages, 5 figures