Alternative elements in the Cayley-Dickson algebras
Abstract
An element a in An, the Cayley-Dickson algebra is alternative if (a,a,x)=0 for all x. In this paper we characterise such elements for n>3.To do so,we prove first the so called Yui's conjecture:For a and b pure elements in An. If (a,x,b)=0 for all x then a and b are linearly dependent.Also we study alternativity between every two elements and relate this with the norm of their product .
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