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And 4 dimensions: See Hurwitz quaternions.
by ogogmad 6y ago
And 4 dimensions: See Hurwitz quaternions.
- pmiller2 6y agoHuh, I'd never heard of that one. I suppose that means that E8 is the equivalent for octonions? That loses the concept of "prime," which is no surprise, because the octonions are not a field, but I wonder if one could bring it back by substituting irreducible representations for primes, somehow? I'm not sure how to carry this off, because I dropped representation theory in grad school, but it seems like an interesting concept to play with, at least.