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Conjugacy Classes of Subalgebras of the Real Sedenions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Kai-Cheong Chan  and
Dragomir Ž. Đoković
Kai-Cheong Chan
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1 e-mail: kclchan@math.uwaterloo.ca e-mail: djokovic@uwaterloo.ca
Dragomir Ž. Đoković
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1 e-mail: kclchan@math.uwaterloo.ca e-mail: djokovic@uwaterloo.ca
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By applying the Cayley–Dickson process to the division algebra of real octonions, one obtains a 16-dimensional real algebra known as (real) sedenions. We denote this algebra by ${{\text{A}}_{4}}$. It is a flexible quadratic algebra (with unit element 1) but not a division algebra.

We classify the subalgebras of ${{\text{A}}_{4}}$ up to conjugacy (i.e., up to the action of the automorphism group $G$ of ${{\text{A}}_{4}}$) with one exception: we leave aside the more complicated case of classifying the quaternion subalgebras. Any nonzero subalgebra contains 1 and we show that there are no proper subalgebras of dimension 5, 7 or > 8. The proper non-division subalgebras have dimensions 3, 6 and 8. We show that in each of these dimensions there is exactly one conjugacy class of such subalgebras. There are infinitely many conjugacy classes of subalgebras in dimensions 2 and 4, but only 4 conjugacy classes in dimension 8.

Keywords

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Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 49 , Issue 4 , 01 December 2006 , pp. 492 - 507
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2006

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