Finding octonionic eigenvectors using Mathematica

DOI10.1016/S0010-4655(98)00126-XMaRDI QIDQ1125190zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Tevian Dray, Corinne A. Manogue

Publication date 30 November 1999

Published in Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9807133

zbMATH Keywords

eigenvectorseigenvaluegeneralized orthogonality propertyMathematica computationsoctonionic Hermitian matrices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors (15A18) Numerical computation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices (65F15) Matrices over special rings (quaternions, finite fields, etc.) (15B33)

Abstract: The eigenvalue problem for 3x3 octonionic Hermitian matrices contains some surprises, which we have reported elsewhere. In particular, the eigenvalues need not be real, there are 6 rather than 3 real eigenvalues, and the corresponding eigenvectors are not orthogonal in the usual sense. The nonassociativity of the octonions makes computations tricky, and all of these results were first obtained via brute force (but exact) Mathematica computations. Some of them, such as the computation of real eigenvalues, have subsequently been implemented more elegantly; others have not. We describe here the use of Mathematica in analyzing this problem, and in particular its use in proving a generalized orthogonality property for which no other proof is known.

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Describes a project that uses

Uses Software

• CLICAL
• Mathematica
• CLIFFORD

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