Sedenion


In abstract algebra, the sedenions form a 16-dimensional noncommutative and nonassociative algebra over the reals; they are obtained by applying the Cayley–Dickson construction to the octonions, and as such the octonions are a subalgebra of the sedenions. Unlike the octonions, the sedenions are not an alternative algebra. Applying the Cayley–Dickson construction to the sedenions yields a 32-dimensional algebra, sometimes called the 32-ions or Trigintaduonions. It is possible to apply the Cayley–Dickson construction to the sedenions infinitely many times.
The term sedenion is also used for other 16-dimensional algebraic structures, such as a tensor product of two copies of the biquaternions, or the algebra of 4 by 4 matrices over the reals, or that studied by.

Arithmetic

Like octonions, multiplication of sedenions is neither commutative nor associative.
But in contrast to the octonions, the sedenions do not even have the property of being alternative.
They do, however, have the property of power associativity, which can be stated as that, for any element x of, the power is well defined. They are also flexible.
Every sedenion is a linear combination of the unit sedenions,,,,...,,
which form a basis of the vector space of sedenions. Every sedenion can be represented in the form
Addition and subtraction are defined by the addition and subtraction of corresponding coefficients and multiplication is distributive over addition.
Like other algebras based on the Cayley–Dickson construction, the sedenions contain the algebra they were constructed from. So, they contain the octonions, and therefore also the quaternions, complex numbers and reals.
The sedenions have a multiplicative identity element and multiplicative inverses but they are not a division algebra because they have zero divisors. This means that two non-zero sedenions can be multiplied to obtain zero: an example is. All hypercomplex number systems after sedenions that are based on the Cayley–Dickson construction contain zero divisors.
A sedenion multiplication table is shown below:

Sedenion properties

From the above table, we can see that:

Anti-associative

The sedenions are not fully anti-associative. Choose any four generators, and. The following 5-cycle shows that at least one of these relations must associate.
In particular, in the table above, using and the last expression associates.

Quaternionic subalgebras

The 35 triads that make up this specific sedenion multiplication table with the 7 triads of the octonions used in creating the sedenion through the Cayley–Dickson construction shown in bold:
The binary representations of the indices of these triples xor to 0.
The list of 84 sets of zero divisors, where
=0:

Applications

showed that the space of pairs of norm-one sedenions that multiply to zero is homeomorphic to the compact form of the exceptional Lie group G2.