Associators in simple algebras

Samuel Gordon

Pacific Journal of Mathematics · 1974 · 44 citations · 32 references

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In this paper it is shown that, with suitable hypotheses on the base field, any element of generic trace zero in an octonion algebra is a commutator and an associator, and any element of generic trace zero in a simple Jordan algebra is an associator.

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