Questions tagged [sedenions]
The sedenions are a 16 dimensional nonassociative algebra over the reals.
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Is division by a null sedenion a valid operation?
So octonion set provides the largest normed division algebra, and starting with sedenions, Cayley-Dickson construction provides algebras with zero divisors.
From what I understand, it means there are ...
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who pioneered the study of the sedenions?
The nature of this question is pure historical curiosity.
I found lots of background information about the discovery of both Imaginary and Complex Numbers, and enough information about the first two ...
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Java Library that supports Quaternions Octonions, Sedenions?
I would like to experiment with multi dimensional complex numbers such as quaternions octonions, sedenions.
I know Apache Commons Maths supports Quaternions, and I've found (although cannot download) ...
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Why do division algebras always have a number of dimensions which is a power of $2$?
Why do number systems always have a number of dimensions which is a power of $2$?
Real numbers: $2^0 = 1$ dimension.
Complex numbers: $2^1 = 2$ dimensions.
Quaternions: $2^2 = 4$ dimensions.
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Are complex split-octonions isomorphic to a more easily-defined algebra?
I write fiction and nonfiction, both which are mathy. My fiction is not usually supermathy but I'm working on a fictional story that has some math in it, and I prefer accuracy to mathbabble. I'm ...
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What specific algebraic properties are broken at each Cayley-Dickson stage beyond octonions?
I'm starting to come around to an understanding of hypercomplex numbers, and I'm particularly fascinated by the fact that certain algebraic properties are broken as we move through each of the $2^n$ ...
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Math beyond Quaternions
Quaternions remove the commutative property and octonions eliminate the associative property can we go any higher and eliminate more properties?
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Why are properties lost in the Cayley–Dickson construction?
Motivating question: What lies beyond the Sedenions?
I'm aware that one can construct a hierarchy of number systems via the Cayley–Dickson process:
$$\mathbb{R} \subset \mathbb{C} \subset \mathbb{H}...
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What lies beyond the Sedenions
In the construction of types of numbers, we have the following sequence:
$$\mathbb{R} \subset \mathbb{C} \subset \mathbb{H} \subset \mathbb{O} \subset \mathbb{S}$$
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$$2^0 \mathrm{-ions} \subset ...
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