{"@context":["https://w3id.org/fdo/context/v1",{"schema":"https://schema.org/","prov":"http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#","fdo":"https://w3id.org/fdo/vocabulary/"}],"@id":"https://fdo.portal.mardi4nfdi.de/fdo/Q1082425","@type":"DigitalObject","kernel":{"@id":"https://fdo.portal.mardi4nfdi.de/fdo/Q1082425","digitalObjectType":"https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle","primaryIdentifier":"mardi:Q1082425","kernelVersion":"v1","immutable":true,"modified":"2026-01-06T09:53:32Z"},"profile":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ScholarlyArticle","@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q1082425","name":"Alternative algebras having scalar involutions","headline":"Alternative algebras having scalar involutions","description":"scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3973114","url":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q1082425","datePublished":"1986-00-00","author":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q1223500"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q380808"}],"publisher":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q161301"}],"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"doi","value":"10.2140/PJM.1986.124.159","url":"https://doi.org/10.2140/PJM.1986.124.159"},"sameAs":["https://doi.org/10.2140/PJM.1986.124.159"],"comment":"This paper classifies all alternative algebras, including infinite- dimensional ones, which admit an involution \\(a\\to a'\\) such that \\(a+a'\\) is a scalar multiple of the identity for all a. If the form \\((ab'+ba')\\) is nondegenerate, then these algebras are called composition algebras, are known to be semisimple of dimension 1,2,4 or 8 and their structure is well known.    The present paper considers the case when the form could be degenerate. Let B be a maximal nonsingular subalgebra of A and R be the radical of the form. Then A is the direct sum of B and R, R is the union of all nilpotent ideals of A, B has dimension \\(2^ n\\) where \\(0\\leq n\\leq 3\\) and \\(R^{4-n}=0\\). The structure of B is well known and R is both anti- commutative and anti-associative. By considering the possible structures for B the authors obtain the structures for A."},"provenance":{"prov:generatedAtTime":"2026-01-06T09:53:32Z","prov:wasAttributedTo":"MaRDI Knowledge Graph"}}