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A class of continuous non-associative algebras arising from algebraic groups including $E_8$

Part of: Other nonassociative rings and algebras Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras Linear algebraic groups and related topics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 January 2021

Maurice Chayet  and
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Maurice Chayet
Affiliation:
ECAM-EPMI, 13 Boulevard de l'Hautil, 95092Cergy Pointoise Cedex, France; E-mail: [email protected]
Skip Garibaldi
Affiliation:
IDA Center for Communications Research-La Jolla, 4320 Westerra Ct, San Diego, CA92121, USA; E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

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We give a construction that takes a simple linear algebraic group G over a field and produces a commutative, unital, and simple non-associative algebra A over that field. Two attractions of this construction are that (1) when G has type $E_8$, the algebra A is obtained by adjoining a unit to the 3875-dimensional representation; and (2) it is effective, in that the product operation on A can be implemented on a computer. A description of the algebra in the $E_8$ case has been requested for some time, and interest has been increased by the recent proof that $E_8$ is the full automorphism group of that algebra. The algebras obtained by our construction have an unusual Peirce spectrum.

MSC classification

Primary: 17B25: Exceptional (super)algebras
Secondary: 17D99: None of the above, but in this section 20G41: Exceptional groups
Type
Algebra
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Forum of Mathematics, Sigma , Volume 9 , 2021 , e6
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