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Hyperpolyadic Structures

Steven Duplij ()
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Steven Duplij: Center for Information Technology (CIT), Universität Münster, Röntgenstrasse 7-13, D-48149 Münster, Germany

Mathematics, 2024, vol. 12, issue 15, 1-28

Abstract: We introduce a new class of division algebras, the hyperpolyadic algebras, which correspond to the binary division algebras R , C , H , O without considering new elements. First, we use the matrix polyadization procedure proposed earlier which increases the dimension of the algebra. The algebras obtained in this way obey binary addition and a nonderived n -ary multiplication and their subalgebras are division n -ary algebras. For each invertible element, we define a new norm which is polyadically multiplicative, and the corresponding map is a n -ary homomorphism. We define a polyadic analog of the Cayley–Dickson construction which corresponds to the consequent embedding of monomial matrices from the polyadization procedure. We then obtain another series of n -ary algebras corresponding to the binary division algebras which have a higher dimension, which is proportional to the intermediate arities, and which are not isomorphic to those obtained by the previous constructions. Second, a new polyadic product of vectors in any vector space is defined, which is consistent with the polyadization procedure using vectorization. Endowed with this introduced product, the vector space becomes a polyadic algebra which is a division algebra under some invertibility conditions, and its structure constants are computed. Third, we propose a new iterative process (we call it the “imaginary tower”), which leads to nonunital nonderived ternary division algebras of half the dimension, which we call “half-quaternions” and “half-octonions”. The latter are not the subalgebras of the binary division algebras, but subsets only, since they have different arity. Nevertheless, they are actually ternary division algebras, because they allow division, and their nonzero elements are invertible. From the multiplicativity of the introduced “half-quaternion” norm, we obtain the ternary analog of the sum of two squares identity. We show that the ternary division algebra of imaginary “half-octonions” is unitless and totally associative.

Keywords: hypercomplex algebra; ternary algebra; n-ary algebra; querelement; quaternion; octonion; Cayley–Dickson construction; division algebra; structure constant; vector space; vectorization; vector multiplication (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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