Two-dimensional real division algebras revisited (Q1875897)
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Two-dimensional real division algebras revisited (English)
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1 September 2004
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The authors provide a new classification of two-dimensional real division algebras into one of four classes along with an historical survey of previous classifications. They also obtain as a corollary a new classification of commutative real division algebras into one of three classes. Rather than working with structure constants and multiplication tables they use a more intrinsic approach specializing the second author's general classification theory [\textit{H. P. Petersson}, Result. Math. 37, No. 1--2, 120--154 (2000; Zbl 0956.17002)].
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two-dimensional real division algebra
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commutative real division algebra
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