Timeline for Is an associative division algebra required for this phenomenon?
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| Feb 2, 2016 at 20:26 | comment | added | Māris Ozols | This phenomenon has some interesting applications in quantum information which I was not aware of at the time I asked the question (see dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.65.022316). | |
| Aug 22, 2015 at 20:12 | answer | added | Name | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 19, 2015 at 20:52 | vote | accept | Māris Ozols | ||
| Aug 19, 2015 at 15:07 | comment | added | Māris Ozols | I have to take this back - octonions indeed work (see the answer by Adam Przeździecki). | |
| Aug 19, 2015 at 12:32 | answer | added | Adam Przeździecki | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 19, 2015 at 11:05 | answer | added | Ehud Meir | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 19, 2015 at 10:07 | comment | added | Māris Ozols | I disagree. I can't use octonions for $d=8$ since they are not associative and thus can't be represented by matrices (because matrix multiplication is associative). | |
| Aug 19, 2015 at 9:30 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | I think associativity is irrelevant. What you want is probably closer to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_algebra. | |
| Aug 19, 2015 at 9:04 | history | edited | Māris Ozols | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
more accurate title
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| Aug 19, 2015 at 8:08 | history | asked | Māris Ozols | CC BY-SA 3.0 |