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Composition algebras of degree two

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Alberto Elduque  and
José M. Pérez-izquierdo
Alberto Elduque
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemáticas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
José M. Pérez-izquierdo
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, U.S.A.
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Composition algebras in which the subalgebra generated by any element has dimension at most two are classified over fields of characteristic ≠2,3. They include, besides the classical unital composition algebras, some closely related algebras and all the composition algebras with invariant quadratic norm.

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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 42 , Issue 3 , October 1999 , pp. 641 - 653
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1999

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