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Cayley-Dickson form of a quaternion

I believe there is a good reason why mathematicians don't use the terminology "simplex-part" and "perplex-part": they are not canonical! … (This terminology is also used for octonions, and also for (generalized) quaternion and octonion algebras over arbitrary fields of characteristic different from $2$.) …
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Projective limit of copies of same group w.r.t. some fixed endomorphism

In our study of automorphism groups of transcendental field extensions, we have encountered the situation where we have a group $F$ together with an endomorphism $\alpha \colon F \to F$, resulting in …
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Group homomorphism from $\mathrm{GL}_p$ to $\mathrm{SL}_p$ in characteristic $p$

If $k$ is a commutative field of characteristic $p>0$, then the map $$ \theta \colon \mathrm{GL}_p(k) \to \mathrm{SL}_p(k) \colon A = (a_{ij}) \mapsto (\det A)^{-1} (a_{ij}^p) $$ is a group homomorphi …
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