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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

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