Function theories in Cayley-Dickson algebras and number theory (Q2044713)

Clifford analysis has been widely recognized as one possibility for generalizing complex function theory to higher dimensions. Recently a lot of progress has been made in extending the construction from the setting of associative Clifford analysis to non-associative Cayley-Dickson algebras with a number of classical theorems obtained at least in the octonionic case. Asking whether there are really essentially different features obtained using the non-associative Cayley-Dickson algebras which cannot be treated in the Clifford analysis setting, the author describes one concrete example. This well-written paper first provides a summary of important facts about hypercomplex numbers in Cayley-Dickson algebras. Next the author shows in Cayley-Dickson algebras the construction of direct analogues of so-called CM-lattices. Canonical examples are lattices with components from the algebraic numbers fields \(Q[\sqrt{m_1},\dots,\sqrt{m_k}]\). Analysis of CM-lattices in Clifford algebras is restricted to functions defined only in a subset of paravectors. The last section of the paper sets up an algebraic relation between different octonionic generalized elliptic functions which lead to octonionic elliptic curves. Explicit formulas are then obtained for the trace of the octonionic CM-division values.