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    Quadrangular Algebras. (MN-46)
    Quadrangular Algebras. (MN-46)
    Quadrangular Algebras. (MN-46)
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    Quadrangular Algebras. (MN-46)

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    This book introduces a new class of non-associative algebras related to certain exceptional algebraic groups and their associated buildings. Richard Weiss develops a theory of these "quadrangular algebras" that opens the first purely algebraic approach to the exceptional Moufang quadrangles. These quadrangles include both those that arise as the spherical buildings associated to groups of type E6, E7, and E8 as well as the exotic quadrangles "of type F4" discovered earlier by Weiss. Based on their relationship to exceptional algebraic groups, quadrangular algebras belong in a series together with alternative and Jordan division algebras. Formally, the notion of a quadrangular algebra is derived from the notion of a pseudo-quadratic space (introduced by Jacques Tits in the study of classical groups) over a quaternion division ring. This book contains the complete classification of quadrangular algebras starting from first principles. It also shows how this classification can be made to yield the classification of exceptional Moufang quadrangles as a consequence. The book closes with a chapter on isotopes and the structure group of a quadrangular algebra.



    Quadrangular Algebras is intended for graduate students of mathematics as well as specialists in buildings, exceptional algebraic groups, and related algebraic structures including Jordan algebras and the algebraic theory of quadratic forms.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPrinceton University Press
    Release dateFeb 9, 2009
    ISBN9781400826940
    Quadrangular Algebras. (MN-46)
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    Richard M. Weiss

    Richard M. Weiss is the William Walker Professor of Mathematics at Tufts University and Honorary Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. He is the author of The Structure of Spherical Buildings and Quadrangular Algebras (both Princeton) and the coauthor with Jacques Tits of Moufang Polygons. He received a Humboldt Research Prize in 2004.

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      Quadrangular Algebras. (MN-46) - Richard M. Weiss

      Quadrangular Algebras

      Quadrangular Algebras

      Richard M. Weiss

      Mathematical Notes 46

      PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

      PRINCETON AND OXFORD

      Copyright ©2006 by Princeton University Press

      Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street,

      Princeton, New Jersey 08540

      In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 3 Market Place, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1SY

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Weiss, Richard M. (Richard Mark), 1946-

      Quadrangular algebras / Richard M. Weiss.

      p. cm. – (Mathematical Notes; 46)

      Includes index.

      eISBN: 978-1-40082-694-0

      1. Forms, Quadratic. 2. Algebra. I. Title. II. Mathematical notes

      (Princeton University Press) ; 46.

      QA243.W45 2005

      512.7’4—dc22

      2005046572

      British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available

      The publisher would like to acknowledge the author of this volume for providing the camera-ready copy from which this book was printed

      Printed on acid-free paper.

      pup.princeton.edu

      Printed in the United States of America

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      Contents

      Preface

      Chapter 1. Basic Definitions

      Chapter 2. Quadratic Forms

      Chapter 3. Quadrangular Algebras

      Chapter

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