Mathematics – Rings and Algebras
Scientific paper
2009-06-29
Mathematics
Rings and Algebras
23 pages; extended version
Scientific paper
New families of eight-dimensional real division algebras with large derivation algebra are presented: We generalize the classical Cayley-Dickson doubling process starting with a unital algebra with involution over a field F by allowing the scalar in the doubling to be an invertible element in the algebra. The resulting unital algebras are neither power-associative nor quadratic. Starting with a quaternion division algebra D, we obtain division algebras A for all invertible scalars chosen in D outside of F. This is independent on where the scalar is placed inside the product and three pairwise non-isomorphic families of eight-dimensional division algebras are obtained. Over the reals, the derivation algebra of each such algebra A is isomorphic to $su(2)\oplus F$ and the decomposition of A into irreducible su(2)-modules has the form 1+1+3+3 (denoting an irreducible su(2)-module by its dimension). Their opposite algebras yield more classes of pairwise non-isomorphic families of division algebras of the same type. We thus give an affirmative answer to a question posed by Benkart and Osborn in 1981.
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