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An octonion algebra originating in combinatorics
Author(s):
Dragomir
Ž.
Đoković;
Kaiming
Zhao
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.
138
(2010),
4187-4195.
MSC (2010):
Primary 17A75, 05B20, 05B30
Posted:
June 22, 2010
MathSciNet review:
2680045
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Abstract:
C.H. Yang discovered a polynomial version of the classical Lagrange identity expressing the product of two sums of four squares as another sum of four squares. He used it to give short proofs of some important theorems on composition of  -codes (now known as  -sequences). We investigate the possible new versions of his polynomial Lagrange identity. Our main result shows that all such identities are equivalent to each other.
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Additional Information:
Dragomir
Ž.
Đoković
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada
Email:
djokovic@uwaterloo.ca
Kaiming
Zhao
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3C5, Canada –and– Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People’s Republic of China
Email:
kzhao@wlu.ca
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9939-2010-10441-0
PII:
S 0002-9939(2010)10441-0
Keywords:
Laurent polynomial ring,
polynomial Lagrange identity,
octonion algebra,
composition algebra
Received by editor(s):
May 12, 2009
Received by editor(s) in revised form:
September 21, 2009 and February 13, 2010
Posted:
June 22, 2010
Additional Notes:
The first author was supported by an NSERC Discovery Grant.
The second author was supported by the NSERC and the NSF of China (Grant 10871192).
Communicated by:
Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann
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Copyright
2010,
American Mathematical Society
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