Cauchy integrals on Lipschitz surfaces in octonionic space

With the newly developed octonion analytic function theory, we confirm the octonionic analogue of the Calderón's conjecture. As application, we obtain the Plemelj formula in octonionic space.     

Associative Cones and Integrable Systems

Abstract We identify ℝ⁷ as the pure imaginary part of octonions. Then the multiplication in octonions gives a natural almost complex structure for the unit sphere S⁶. It is known that a cone over a surface M in S⁶ is an associative submanifold of ℝ⁷ if and only if M is almost complex in S⁶. In this paper, we show that the Gauss-Codazzi equation for almost complex curves in S⁶ are the equation for primitive maps associated to the 6-symmetric space G₂=T², and use this to explain some of the known results. Moreover, the equation for S¹-symmetric almost complex curves in S⁶ is the periodic Toda lattice, and a discussion of periodic solutions is given. (Dedicated to the memory of Shiing-Shen Chern) * Partially supported by NSF grant DMS-0529756.     

An improvement of the octonionic Taylor type theorem

We prove that the octonionic polynomials V ■k l 1 ··· l k are independent of the associative orders ■k . This improves the octonionic Taylor type theorem.     

On the vanishing of subspaces of alternating bilinear forms

Given a field F and integer n≥3, we introduce an invariant s_n (F) which is defined by examining the vanishing of subspaces of alternating bilinear forms on 2-dimensional subspaces of vector spaces. This invariant arises when we calculate the largest dimension of a subspace of n?×?n skew-symmetric matrices over F which contains no elements of rank 2. We show how to calculate s_n (F) for various families of field F, including finite fields. We also prove the existence of large subgroups of the commutator subgroup of certain p-groups of class 2 which contain no non-identity commutators.     

Associative Cones and Integrable Systems

We identify R7 as the pure imaginary part of octonions. Then the multiplication in octonions gives a natural almost complex structure for the unit sphere S6. It is known that a cone over a surface M in S6 is an associative submanifold of R7 if and only if M is almost complex in S6. In this paper, we show that the Gauss-Codazzi equation for almost complex curves in S6 are the equation for primitive maps associated to the 6-symmetric space G2/T2, and use this to explain some of the known results. Moreover, the equation for S1-symmetric almost complex curves in S6 is the periodic Toda lattice, and a discussion of periodic solutions is given.     

On Curtis' theorem about finite octonionic loops

We prove a stronger version of Curtis' classification theorem of finite subloops of the Cayley octonions .

     

Non-Existence of Coassociative Quantized Universal Enveloping Algebras of the Traceless Octonions

The purpose of this brief note is to prove that any coassociative bialgebra deformation of the universal enveloping algebra of the seven dimensional central simple exceptional Malcev algebra over a field of characteristic zero is cocommutative.     

Characterization of octonionic analytic functions

It is shown that there is only one possible way to define the O-analytic functions. A simple way to construct the O-analytic functions is also given.     

Algorithms for Finding the Roots of Some Quadratic Octonion Equations

In this paper, we give an algorithm to find the roots of the octonionic quadratic equation x ² + bx + c = 0, and develop a Matlab package to find solutions. We also discuss how to find the roots of some other octonion quadratic equations, such as an algorithm is given for finding the roots of the octonion quadratic equation xax + bx + c = 0.